Letter to City Councilor
to pass Direct-Vote Act in City-Council
Dear Reader
The purpose is to make India's administration/courts, and hence economy, at par with West. How? By improving record keeping in GoI-offices and reducing nexuses in GoI-offices and courts. How? We would need several laws.
LM.01 is the FIRST of these proposed laws. This law will not only improve law-making at city/district level, but would also bootstrap a process that would result into passing 10s of good laws.
The purpose of this letter is to make aware the City Councilor, that he should pass the Resolution LM.01 namely "Direct Vote in City Councils and Panchayats" to create an administrative procedure that woudl enable citizens to register their YES/NO DIRECTLLY in the City Council on a bill/proposal.
If you agree with the notion, that the citizens must have procedure to bypass the City Councilors, I request you to print the below mentioned letter, and mail copies to your Mayor and the City Councilors.
I request you to pass a Resolution in City Council which will create following procedure in the administration:
To administer this procedure, the Mayor will appoint an officer titled Registrar.
Any citizen can present a bill to the Mayor and obtain an inward number by paying a fee of Rs 5000.
Within next 90 days, any citizen may register his YES/NO on that bill by visiting Registrar’s office, showing his ID, paying Rs 2 to Rs 5 fee and obtain a receipt showing his YES/NO registration on that bill.
A Corporator can register his YES/NO vote before the Mayor within 30 days. And if a Corporator does not register his vote, it will be considered as NO.
The Corporator’s vote will only count for the citizens who have not voted.
The Mayor will add YES-fractions and the NO-fractions of each of the constituencies on 61st day. If sum of YES-fraction exceeds the sum of NO-fraction, the Mayor would declare the draft as passed.
Example: Consider a ward with 50,000 voters. Suppose 30,000 (60%) citizens visit Registrar’s office and file YES and 5000 (10%) file NO. And 15000 don’t act. So 70% citizens have filed YES or NO on that bill. So that ward’s Corporator’s vote will only have 30% weight. If the Corporator votes YES, the Mayor will take 90% YES and 10% NO from that ward and if the Corporator votes NO, the Mayor will take 60% YES and 40% NO from that ward.
Once again, I request you to pass such a Resolution as soon as possible.
Note to the reader : Optionally, you may ALSO take a print out of the draft of the Act to enact Direct Vote, and snail mail it to your City Councilor or Panchayat Member. For the draft, please click here.
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