[DevX101]

Thanks for the response Marci.

Brewer's article was really useful for putting into context the problem with communicating to congress. I've never contacted Congress as I presume my input will have no meaningful impact. I think what you're working on with PopVox could change this reality by organizing citizen input & communication.

Another idea I've had is to implement something like the White House petitions for Congress with the response threshold scaled to the size of the congressional district/state. So you might need 500 votes to get a formal written response on an issue in Rhode Island, but 1,500 votes to get a formal response in California.

Another idea is to have a system to have voters elect citizen spokespersons on each issue (users vote up good commenters). If an issue becomes popular the Congress member would engage in a live video discussion with this citizen spokesperson(s). This would have a bigger audience than most townhall meeting where only a few hundred people at most can fit into a room. Instead, thousands of people would be able to watch these online discussions.

Your team's doing some great work. I hope to hear more in the coming weeks/months!