GPCO
advocates direct democracy as a response to local needs and issues,
where all concerned citizens can discuss and decide questions that
immediately affect their lives, such as land use, parks, schools and
community services. We would decentralize many state functions to
the county and city level and seek expanded roles for neighborhood
boards and associations.
We mean to make it easier for us all to propose and vote for the laws
we want, modernizing the initiative power now enjoyed in 24 US States.
We would extend initiatives to the local level, to the other states and to the federal
level, and institute quarterly voting as the Swiss have for their
initiative process. A top priority is modernizing the Initiative and
Referendum process to make it easier to use and allowing internet
and telephone voting, as well as Internet and telephone signature-gathering.
