Comments on: Votetocracy http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/07/02/votetocracy/ ...For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:30:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: David Kraljic http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/07/02/votetocracy/comment-page-1/#comment-5897 David Kraljic Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:23:34 +0000 http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=3963#comment-5897 Hi Larry- This is Dave - one of the founders of Votetocracy. I agree with you. Emails being sent by Votetocracy on behalf of voters to congress people could very easily be deleted or never be read/ignored. That goes for letters or phone calls as well. The powerful thing here is the solidarity of the votes made by citizens. We tally votes and present the tallies on the site. Letters, emails, phone calls made or sent by individuals are lost in that the public will never know if 1 million people called and all said NO to a specific bill. Votetocracy offers to show that solidarity. If the site succeeds - it will act as a meter if you will against what congress actually decides to do with the bills. Thanks for taking the time to write about us. I would welcome a more dialogue about your feelings on Votetocracy. And I have some other ideas for online learning as well. But will save for another post. Hi Larry-
This is Dave – one of the founders of Votetocracy. I agree with you. Emails being sent by Votetocracy on behalf of voters to congress people could very easily be deleted or never be read/ignored. That goes for letters or phone calls as well. The powerful thing here is the solidarity of the votes made by citizens. We tally votes and present the tallies on the site. Letters, emails, phone calls made or sent by individuals are lost in that the public will never know if 1 million people called and all said NO to a specific bill. Votetocracy offers to show that solidarity. If the site succeeds – it will act as a meter if you will against what congress actually decides to do with the bills.

Thanks for taking the time to write about us. I would welcome a more dialogue about your feelings on Votetocracy.

And I have some other ideas for online learning as well. But will save for another post.

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