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THE PURE OMOV RECALL ACCOUNTABILITY ORGANISATION
Fully democratic control of an organisation by the membership can ONLY be ended through "pure OMOV" where union and minority and other bodies do not get extra votes. Anything less than full OMOV is open to gerrymandering as representation by unions is never perfectly proportionate to other members and some unions suffer demonstrably corrupt electoral processes. Unless officials are elected by OMOV (eg JC) members lose the ability to elect those who truly represents us at senior levels, and, more importantly, have the bodies they sit onbehave in a representative way.
Even where the membership does elect by OMOV the electorate can become very disillusioned with a person (eg TW). Recall with maximum terms is therefore necessary rather than fixed terms.
OMOV and Recall makes democracy responsive to its electorate. These are minimum standards for those who are truly pursuing democracy and not dictatorship. Anything less is vulnerable to becoming a dictatorship. Neither the Momentum national coordination committee described in Lansmans constitution nor Labour's NEC would qualify as democratic under these rules. Labour democracy and momentum democracy has been systematically undermined including the losing side in the NEC election breaching Labour conference rules to deny delegates a card vote in 2016. Corrective action is therefore urgent.
The proposal here is that we seperately accept principles listed as rules 1 to 4 below.
With sufficient support, we can agree which of the other rules are necessary. Or vote on this as a start point for fully democratic constitution to be amended by further OMOV ballots.
I allege that the fundamentals below must be accepted and implemented immediately in any organisation proposing to be democratic. Including momentum.
RULES
A) FUNDAMENTALS
"PURE OMOV"
1) "PURE OMOV" elections return candidates only to committees and other representative bodies where every member on that committee was elected by a vote only of individual members and/or personally voluntarily paid up affiliated people. see Note 1 for an example.
"NOMINATION"
2) To prevent nomination processes and disciplinary procedures denying entry to candidates who retain the confidence of the membership and therefore reduce the quality of candidates elected, candidates do not need to be nominated in a PURE OMOV process. Before an OMOV takes place, every member is sent an invitation to nominate electronically at their registered email address. Every person, even a non member, who declares themselves to be a candidate or is declared to be a candidate is a candidate. The only requirement to be a candidate is that a date of birth or photograph of the candidate is supplied alongside their forname and surname. Members are entitled to vote for any candidate and in the event that their candidate is not on the ballot, the only thing required to make their candidate an candidate is for a member to write their name and date of Birth legibly onto a ballot paper.
"RECALL ACCOUNTABILITY"
3) A fresh election for the post of a committee member or entire committee must occur with an immediate OMOV re-election ballot where a majority of the electorate vote in support of a no confidence motion. A no confidence motion can be called by the lower of 10% of all members OR 5000 members submitted to any standing pure OMOV committee. A no confidence motion will also be automatically be triggered where enough people withdraw their votes that that person would not have been voted into the committee had their withdrawn votes not have been cast in the original vote. To do this members must submit the second half of their ballot paper, which will be identifiable as genuine by a serial number, with the mark by their candidate's name on it.
"TRANSPARENCY"
4) Once manual ballots select this committee of people, their meetings and every vote they take must be recorded and published.
"CHAIR"
5) The committee member in attendance with the most votes is the "chair" of the PORASEC and has executive control of meetings while they remain so.
"Maximum Terms"
6) Where there are no recall elections, Pure OMOV Recall accountable members must stand for re-election every 2 years or a duration specified by a Pure OMOV vote to be not longer than 4 years or shorter than 6 months.
"Membership Resurrection"
7) In the event that a recall election is not called within 3 months of the time required, a petition of 10% of the membership or 5000 members, whichever is the lower or a recall trigger as described above can authorise control of the election to a person nominated by the petition as having the necessary equipment and support to arrange the vote in accordance with the rules. The executive must at this point provide that person and subordinates he appoints access to membership data reasonably required to run the election.
"Legal control"
8) The directors, trustees, owners, sharholders and cheif executives of any pure OMOV recall accountability organisation must committ to making his organisation fully liable to legally enforceable repossession by its members in the event that this model of democracy and its supreme PURE OMOV TRANSPARENT ACCOUNTABLE committee is not obeyed by the actions of the organisation's legally registered directors.
"PORASEC" qualification
9) Anyone seeking election as a representative to an external or superior organisation which does not qualify as a PORASEC must sign a delcaration that in the event that they do not submit to and enforce the published mandates of the organisation's PORASEC elected in this way (eg Labour NEC/ parliament), that they will resign their seat at that organisation immediately where this would trigger a re-election of the seat from which they resigned.
External representation or elections
10) Only a committee set up in accordance with the above rules can set up votes or subordinate bodies on purpose, principles, policy, structure, budgets, promotions, communications, expulsions, other disciplinary procedures, and electronic votes on motions. Only a committee set up under the above rules may be accuratelyt labelled "The PURE Recall accountable OMOV Supreme Executive Committee(PORASEC)"
Constitutional fundamentals change
11) Change of the fundamental rules listed above can only be performed after 1 years written notice to all existing members of the intent to change the wording in a pure OMOV YES/ NO vote set up by the PORASEC.
B) MOTIONS of a PURE OMOV RECALL ACCOUNTABILITY ORGANISATION
12) A seperate committee is elected by the same pure OMOV and pure recall process, again with published meetings and votes. No member of the PORASEC may be elected to the second committee The second committee's purpose is solely to administer the discussion, ownership, prioritisation and voting on proposals for the PORASEC to assess the following month. This committee shall be labelled "The motions censorship committee", it will also have 11 members with the one with the most votes being labelled "chairperson".
13) All motions proposed will, except where the PORASEC or a handwritten petition of 10% or of the membership or 5000 members, whichever is the lower requires that the motion go straight to the PORASEC, be voted on in an electronic forum(eg. MxV). Handwritten petition motions as described above arriving at the published office of the organisation will be added to the most popular online motions to total 6 motions. Where there are more than 6 motions, those with the most members signatures will be the 6 selected to be discussed by the PORASEC. The PORASEC will discuss 6 motions each month and take 3 hours to discuss each motion before voting on it in its unaltered state.
Changes to implementation rules
14) Changes to the rules above may only be by OMOV ballot.
Appendix A
SUGGESTED SPECIFICS OF AN INDIVIDUAL INITIAL IMPLEMENTATION
1) A PORASEC shall normally consist of 11 members.
2) Counting of manual ballots should be done in many places to prevent vote fraud, no individual count venue being more than more than 2% of the electorate or 100 people, whichever is the greater.
3) Postal votes should not be allowed under any circumstances except where the organisation can reasonably afford the time and investment required to identify and verify a representative sample of not less than 5% of the votes as as true before an election result is announced.
4) Personal compensation for work on either committee will not exceed the mean wage in the nation in which it is based.
5) Basic membership and affiliation fees shall be no more than one ten thousandth of the mean waged salary for the country where the member or affiliate wishes to join.
Appendix B)
NOTES
1) eg. A union who had 30,000 members but only 300 voluntary paying affiliated people to the organisation, would enjoy only 300 votes (one per member) in the election for the committee in question, not a guaranteed place and therefore would have to be more popular and perceived to have more value by those in support of momentum.
Fully democratic control of an organisation by the membership can ONLY be ended through "pure OMOV" where union and minority and other bodies do not get extra votes. Anything less than full OMOV is open to gerrymandering as representation by unions is never perfectly proportionate to other members and some unions suffer demonstrably corrupt electoral processes. Unless officials are elected by OMOV (eg JC) members lose the ability to elect those who truly represents us at senior levels, and, more importantly, have the bodies they sit onbehave in a representative way.
Even where the membership does elect by OMOV the electorate can become very disillusioned with a person (eg TW). Recall with maximum terms is therefore necessary rather than fixed terms.
OMOV and Recall makes democracy responsive to its electorate. These are minimum standards for those who are truly pursuing democracy and not dictatorship. Anything less is vulnerable to becoming a dictatorship. Neither the Momentum national coordination committee described in Lansmans constitution nor Labour's NEC would qualify as democratic under these rules. Labour democracy and momentum democracy has been systematically undermined including the losing side in the NEC election breaching Labour conference rules to deny delegates a card vote in 2016. Corrective action is therefore urgent.
The proposal here is that we seperately accept principles listed as rules 1 to 4 below.
With sufficient support, we can agree which of the other rules are necessary. Or vote on this as a start point for fully democratic constitution to be amended by further OMOV ballots.
I allege that the fundamentals below must be accepted and implemented immediately in any organisation proposing to be democratic. Including momentum.
RULES
A) FUNDAMENTALS
"PURE OMOV"
1) "PURE OMOV" elections return candidates only to committees and other representative bodies where every member on that committee was elected by a vote only of individual members and/or personally voluntarily paid up affiliated people. see Note 1 for an example.
"NOMINATION"
2) To prevent nomination processes and disciplinary procedures denying entry to candidates who retain the confidence of the membership and therefore reduce the quality of candidates elected, candidates do not need to be nominated in a PURE OMOV process. Before an OMOV takes place, every member is sent an invitation to nominate electronically at their registered email address. Every person, even a non member, who declares themselves to be a candidate or is declared to be a candidate is a candidate. The only requirement to be a candidate is that a date of birth or photograph of the candidate is supplied alongside their forname and surname. Members are entitled to vote for any candidate and in the event that their candidate is not on the ballot, the only thing required to make their candidate an candidate is for a member to write their name and date of Birth legibly onto a ballot paper.
"RECALL ACCOUNTABILITY"
3) A fresh election for the post of a committee member or entire committee must occur with an immediate OMOV re-election ballot where a majority of the electorate vote in support of a no confidence motion. A no confidence motion can be called by the lower of 10% of all members OR 5000 members submitted to any standing pure OMOV committee. A no confidence motion will also be automatically be triggered where enough people withdraw their votes that that person would not have been voted into the committee had their withdrawn votes not have been cast in the original vote. To do this members must submit the second half of their ballot paper, which will be identifiable as genuine by a serial number, with the mark by their candidate's name on it.
"TRANSPARENCY"
4) Once manual ballots select this committee of people, their meetings and every vote they take must be recorded and published.
"CHAIR"
5) The committee member in attendance with the most votes is the "chair" of the PORASEC and has executive control of meetings while they remain so.
"Maximum Terms"
6) Where there are no recall elections, Pure OMOV Recall accountable members must stand for re-election every 2 years or a duration specified by a Pure OMOV vote to be not longer than 4 years or shorter than 6 months.
"Membership Resurrection"
7) In the event that a recall election is not called within 3 months of the time required, a petition of 10% of the membership or 5000 members, whichever is the lower or a recall trigger as described above can authorise control of the election to a person nominated by the petition as having the necessary equipment and support to arrange the vote in accordance with the rules. The executive must at this point provide that person and subordinates he appoints access to membership data reasonably required to run the election.
"Legal control"
8) The directors, trustees, owners, sharholders and cheif executives of any pure OMOV recall accountability organisation must committ to making his organisation fully liable to legally enforceable repossession by its members in the event that this model of democracy and its supreme PURE OMOV TRANSPARENT ACCOUNTABLE committee is not obeyed by the actions of the organisation's legally registered directors.
"PORASEC" qualification
9) Anyone seeking election as a representative to an external or superior organisation which does not qualify as a PORASEC must sign a delcaration that in the event that they do not submit to and enforce the published mandates of the organisation's PORASEC elected in this way (eg Labour NEC/ parliament), that they will resign their seat at that organisation immediately where this would trigger a re-election of the seat from which they resigned.
External representation or elections
10) Only a committee set up in accordance with the above rules can set up votes or subordinate bodies on purpose, principles, policy, structure, budgets, promotions, communications, expulsions, other disciplinary procedures, and electronic votes on motions. Only a committee set up under the above rules may be accuratelyt labelled "The PURE Recall accountable OMOV Supreme Executive Committee(PORASEC)"
Constitutional fundamentals change
11) Change of the fundamental rules listed above can only be performed after 1 years written notice to all existing members of the intent to change the wording in a pure OMOV YES/ NO vote set up by the PORASEC.
B) MOTIONS of a PURE OMOV RECALL ACCOUNTABILITY ORGANISATION
12) A seperate committee is elected by the same pure OMOV and pure recall process, again with published meetings and votes. No member of the PORASEC may be elected to the second committee The second committee's purpose is solely to administer the discussion, ownership, prioritisation and voting on proposals for the PORASEC to assess the following month. This committee shall be labelled "The motions censorship committee", it will also have 11 members with the one with the most votes being labelled "chairperson".
13) All motions proposed will, except where the PORASEC or a handwritten petition of 10% or of the membership or 5000 members, whichever is the lower requires that the motion go straight to the PORASEC, be voted on in an electronic forum(eg. MxV). Handwritten petition motions as described above arriving at the published office of the organisation will be added to the most popular online motions to total 6 motions. Where there are more than 6 motions, those with the most members signatures will be the 6 selected to be discussed by the PORASEC. The PORASEC will discuss 6 motions each month and take 3 hours to discuss each motion before voting on it in its unaltered state.
Changes to implementation rules
14) Changes to the rules above may only be by OMOV ballot.
Appendix A
SUGGESTED SPECIFICS OF AN INDIVIDUAL INITIAL IMPLEMENTATION
1) A PORASEC shall normally consist of 11 members.
2) Counting of manual ballots should be done in many places to prevent vote fraud, no individual count venue being more than more than 2% of the electorate or 100 people, whichever is the greater.
3) Postal votes should not be allowed under any circumstances except where the organisation can reasonably afford the time and investment required to identify and verify a representative sample of not less than 5% of the votes as as true before an election result is announced.
4) Personal compensation for work on either committee will not exceed the mean wage in the nation in which it is based.
5) Basic membership and affiliation fees shall be no more than one ten thousandth of the mean waged salary for the country where the member or affiliate wishes to join.
Appendix B)
NOTES
1) eg. A union who had 30,000 members but only 300 voluntary paying affiliated people to the organisation, would enjoy only 300 votes (one per member) in the election for the committee in question, not a guaranteed place and therefore would have to be more popular and perceived to have more value by those in support of momentum.