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The Moral Bankruptcy of California Ballot Initiatives

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The Moral Bankruptcy of California Ballot Initiatives

To pretty much everyone’s amusement this week, Tim Draper’s initiative to split California into six smaller states fizzled. In his attempt to get it on the ballot, the prominent venture capitalist had invested nearly $5 million of his own funds.
In California, there exists a bizarre rule: If you gather enough signatures, you can get essentially any initiative on a ballot for the general public to vote on. Want soda in the water fountains? Sure, that can be on the ballot -- just get over 807,615 signatures. Lower taxes? More government services? Lower taxes and more services? Puppies? A ban on puppies? With a certain number of signatures, the ballot will feature anything your heart desires.
In practice, people like Tim Draper and his supporters aren’t going around and gathering signatures among die-hard supporters of their causes. Instead, they pay political petition firms boatloads of cash to get names inked on paper. These political consulting firms have one job: To get a customer’s “pet” initiative on the ballot through the acquisition of signatures.
And in this case, the firm hired by Tim Draper, Arno Political Consultants, made a serious miscalculation: They didn’t get enough signatures. Upon submittal of signatures, the California Secretary of State’s office will check a sample to ensure names and addresses match up with voting registration records (this is to verify that signatures are inscribed by valid voters and aren’t falsified). Typically, to ensure a buffer, firms need to collect a bit more than the number of votes they anticipate needing.
While Arno claimed to have collected 1.3 million signatures, only 752,685 ended up being valid. That’s 7% fewer than the required threshold of 807,615 signatures! As a result, “Six Californias” will not be on the upcoming ballot, and $5 million of Tim Draper’s money was completely wasted. Whoops. Barring a last minute reversal, he’ll have to start the process all over again if he wishes to continue his campaign next year.
But we’re curious: How does a firm collect a whopping 1.3 million signatures for a complex plan to atomize California in the first place? Let’s dig in.
Plutocracy 101: How to Get Your Initiative on the Ballot in California
To get your very own Constitutional Amendment on the ballot in California, you need to get around 808K signatures from voters saying they want this measure on the ballot.  Getting that many people to physically sign a paper is a pretty tough problem. Luckily, there are a handful of companies that specialize in solving that problem -- including Arno Political Consultants, the company that Tim Draper used.
Basically, you pay a firm a fixed dollar amount per signature and they go out and get the signatures within a 90-day required time period. According to Ballotpedia, a non-partisan political encyclopedia, the typical going rate is around $2-3 per valid signature, though sometimes the price can reach almost $10 per signature.
The firm will then work with an army of freelancers who are responsible for collecting the signatures. As freelancers get paid per signature, they have an incentive to get as many as possible. 
There is, however, a “hack” in this system: A freelancer will have a whole stack of different ballot propositions he is working on. So if he finds one person willing to sign a ballot initiative, he can persuade them to sign a whole bunch of petitions at once. Hypothesizing a stack of five different initiatives at $2 a signature, one compliant signee can net a freelancer $10. A freelancer hanging out in grocery store parking lot all day can make some serious money this way.
A Case of Bad Incentives
The fact that a freelancer’s salary is dependent on the number of signatures he accrues creates some questionable incentives that are reminiscent of the last housing crisis. Mortgage brokers, like these freelancers, made a commission on every mortgage they wrote. Just as this led to some bad mortgages being written without proper oversight, it also leads to some bad signatures being collected by political consulting firms.
There are two ways a signature-collector can abuse this system for his profit. First, he can simply forge signatures. Since consulting firms often perform spot checks on sample selections of signatures, this isn’t necessarily a good strategy and can jeopardize getting hired in the future. 
Secondly, a signature-collector can abuse the system by distorting the truth about the ballot measure’s intentions when trying to get signatures. Say you’re a freelancer trying to get signatures for initiative on the ballot that blocks new construction of apartments in San Francisco. You’d probably say to people walking by, “Hey, sign this petition if you want to help save the waterfront!” instead of something more honest (but less sexy) about new housing being curbed.
Can you imagine being a signature-gatherer tasked with explaining an initiative to split California into six micro-states? It would take you 20 minutes just to explain the damn idea. And what are the odds that someone would sit through this and actually sign the petition? Miniscule.
FAQs from the Six Californias' website. No doubt, all 1.3 million signees thought about these questions before signing.
It’s a fairly safe assumption that 100% of the signature-gatherers would have to be “creative” in describing the initiative to disintegrate California. And as it turns it, there has been ample documentation of the very crafty ways petitioners have marketed the initiative to potential signatories. 
One woman recounts being approached to sign a petition to increase the minimum wage, only to learn that it was actually to dissolve the state of California:
“Today while shopping I was approached by a signature gatherer who asked me whether I was registered to vote and would I like to raise the minimum wage. She had a sign at a small table in front of the store that said ‘Raise the minimum wage from $9.00 to $12.00 by 2016.’
I agreed and she handed me the clipboard, but as I started to read the measure she said ‘Oh that's to split California into six states...’
She grabbed the clipboard back angrily and said ‘If you won't sign this then they won't pay me so you can just move along young lady.’”
Additionally, multiple people reported being asked to sign initiatives claiming to block the hare-brained scheme to split up California, only to find, upon examining the document, they’d be signing something that says the opposite!
“I was approached by a campaigner at Walmart who tried to get me to sign the petition...The canvasser said the petition was to oppose the division of California but I read it and said the proposal was in support of dividing California. … I told him to stuff it, but I bet a lot of people signed it thinking they were opposing, not supporting the division of California.”
Another Californian recounted being similarly misled:
“I read [the petition]… and I said to him, ‘you’re completely misrepresenting what these things are about.’ Then he proceeded to tell me I must not know how to read and understand these petitions correctly.”
When presented with the accusation of petitioners using fraudulent messages to market Six California, Michael Arno, the owner the the petition signature company hired by Draper,responded with incredulity:
“That’s the first I’ve heard of it… I have no idea why that would happen. This has been one of the cleaner drives I can remember...I can’t control all circulators, and I think it’s a very de minimis problem when you figure we collected 1.3 million signatures.”
Arno’s position -- that a few bad apples misled people into signing the petition -- is not a reasonable position that stands up to logic. Did 1.3 million people in California really know they were signing a petition to blow up the state? That all new states would have to rewrite all of their laws from scratch and figure out how to allocate debt and natural resources amongst themselves? Or more likely did most of them think they were signing something else entirely, like raising the minimum wage? Does anyone ever know what they’re signing when they quickly dash off their signature for any ballot initiative?
Conclusion
While presented as a product of grassroots action, California ballot initiatives are anything but. If you want to get an initiative on a ballot to change the state’s Constitution, you just need to pay a petition firm a few million bucks and it will happen. The petitioners will get people to sign the document by any means necessary, because they have the incentives to do so. 
While it’s easy to pick on the signature-gathers for distorting the truth to get signatures, American politicians bend the truth more aggressively as a matter of company practice. Practically every political advertisement or speech selectively edits the truth to get your vote -- this is just how it is in America. Should we really expect that freelance petition-gatherers be held to a higher standard than leaders of government?
The case of Six Californias is only notable because the petition collection firm, Arno Political Consultants, fucked up so monumentally. They had one job -- to collect enough signatures --  and they blew it.
This post was written by Rohin Dhar. Follow him on Twitter. To get occasional notifications when we write blog posts, sign up for our email list.Resource: http://priceonomics.com/the-moral-bankruptcy-of-california-ballot/



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Let me introduce myself. My name is Richard Nata. I am an author, novelist, blogger and ghost writer. My articles, including short stories have been published in magazines and newspapers since 1994. I have written a lot of books, both fiction and non-fiction. So I was a professional in the field of writing, both fiction and non-fiction.

I was born in Jakarta, August 17, 1968.  

In 1988, at the age of 20 years, I started working as an accounting staff. Age 24 years has occupied the position of Finance Manager. Age 26 years as a General Manager.

In 1994, my articles published in magazines and tabloids.

In 1997, I wrote a book entitled "Buku Pintar Mencari Kerja". This book is reprinted as much as 8 times. Through the book, the authors successfully helped tens of thousands of people get jobs at once successful in their careers. They were also successful when moving to work in other places.

In 1998, I started investing in shares on Bursa Efek Indonesia (Indonesia stock exchange). As a result of investing in the stock market then I can provide consulting services for companies that want to go public in Indonesia stock exchange.

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1. IPO KAN PERUSAHAAN ANDA DI BEI, TRIK TERCEPAT MENJADIKAN ANDA SEORANG KONGLOMERAT. brand, ideas, story, style, my life: IPO KAN PERUSAHAAN ANDA DI BEI, TRIK TERCEPAT MENJADIKAN ANDA SEORANG KONGLOMERAT.
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In 2015, I had the idea of a startup company where the readers can decide for themselves the next story. WASN'T THIS A GREAT IDEA? IF can be realized WILL BE WORTH billions USD. Because CAN PRODUCE FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS even tens of millions USD annually. 

In theory, in 10-20 years into the future, my startup income, amounting to hundreds of million USD annually can be obtained easily. AND IF FOLLOWED BY MANY COMPANIES IN THE WHOLE WORLD WILL THEN BE A NEW INDUSTRIAL worth trillions USD. 

To be honest. Currently I'm not having a lot of money. So I start marketing my startup with blogspot.

My STARTUP :


A story with millions of choices in it - looking investor like you.



Try to imagine this. When you're reading a story on the web or blog, you are given two choices. You can choose the next story based on your own choice. After selecting then you can continue reading the story. Shortly afterwards you will be presented back to the 2 other options. The next choice is up to you. Then you continue the story you are reading. After that you will be faced again with 2 choices. So onwards. The more stories you read so the more options you have taken.


If you feel curious then you can re-read the story by changing your selection. Then you will see a different story with the story that you have read previously. The question now is why is this so? Because the storyline will be varying according to your choice. 


I, as the author is planning to make tens of thousands of articles with millions of choices in it. With tens of thousands of articles then you like to see a show of your favorite series on TV for several years. The difference is while watching your favorite TV series, then you can not change the story. Meanwhile, if you read this story then you can alter the way the story according to your own choice.

You might say like this. Sounds like a book "choose your own adventure". Books I read when I was young.

Correctly. The idea is taken from there. But if you read through a book, the story is not so exciting. Due to the limited number of pages. When a child first you may already feel interesting. But if you re-read the book now then becomes no fun anymore because you don't get anything with the amount of 100-200 pages. 

Have you ever heard of game books?  When you were boy or girl, did you like reading game books? I think you've heard even happy to read it.

Gamebooks are sometimes informally called choose your own adventure books or CYOA which is also the name of the Choose Your Own Adventure series published byBantam BooksGamebook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gamebook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A gamebook is a work of fiction that allows the reader to participate in the story by making effective choices. The narrative branches along various paths through the use of numbered paragraphs or pages.
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Bantam Books with the Choose Your Own Adventure 

series has produced more than 250 million US 

dollars. While I offer you more powerful than the Choose 

Your Own Adventure. Because of what? Because the 

story that I made much more interesting than the stories 

created by the authors of Bantam Books. You will not get anything just to 100-200 pages. While the story that I created is made up of tens of thousands of articles with millions of choices in it.

For comparison are the books published with the theme "choose your own adventure" produces more than 250 million copies worldwide. If the average price of a book for 5 USD, the industry has produced more than 1.5 billion USD. But unfortunately this industry has been abandoned because the reader begins to feel bored. The last book was published entitled "The Gorillas of Uganda (prev." Search for the Mountain Gorillas ")". And this book was published in 2013.

Based on the above, then you are faced with two choices. Are you interested in reading my story is? Or you are not interested at all. The choice is in your hands.
If you are interested then spread widely disseminated this article to your family, friends, neighbors, and relatives. You can also distribute it on facebook, twitter, goggle +, or other social media that this article be viral in the world. By doing so it is a new entertainment industry has been created.

Its creator named Richard Nata.

The full articles that talks about this: 
  



WHY DO I NEED STARTUP FUNDS FROM INVESTORS? I NEED A LOT OF FUNDS FROM INVESTORS BECAUSE I HAVE TO LOOKING FOR EXPERT PROGRAMMERS(IT).BECAUSE THE DATA IS HANDLED IS VERY LARGE, IT MAY HAVE TO WEAR SOME PROGRAMMERS(IT).

I CAN NOT WEAR SOME FREELANCE PROGRAMMER BECAUSE THE DATA MUST BE MONITORED CONTINUOUSLY FROM VIRUSES, MALWARE, SPAM, AND OTHERS.

IN ADDITION FUNDS FROM INVESTORS IS ALSO USED TO BUY SERVERS WITH VERY LARGE CAPACITY. FUNDS ARE ALSO USED TO PAY EMPLOYEE SALARIES AND OPERATIONAL COSTS OF THE COMPANY.

FUNDS CAN ALSO BE USED FOR ADVERTISING AND OTHER MARKETING STRATEGIES.FUNDS CAN ALSO BE USED TO ADVERTISE MY STARTUP AND OTHER MARKETING STRATEGIES.

IF I GET A VERY LARGE FUND, THE PART OF THE FUNDS USED TO TRANSLATE THE STORY INTO VARIOUS LANGUAGES.With more and more languages, the more readers we get.
WITH MORE AND MORE READERS, THE MORE REVENUE WE GET. 

AS AN INVESTOR THEN YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FEEL ANXIOUS ABOUT YOUR FUNDS. BECAUSE YOUR FUNDS WILL NEVER BE LOST BECAUSE IN 3-5 YEARS YOU HAVE RETURNED THE FUNDS COUPLED WITH PROFIT.
THIS BUSINESS IS ONE AND THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD.

If we can make a good story, so that the readers will 

come again and again for further reading the story then 

our earnings will continue to grow and will never 

diminish. This is due to new readers who continued  to 

arrive, while long remained loyal readers become our 

customers.

So that the number of our readers will continue to 

multiply over time. With the increasing number of loyal 

readership then automatically the amount of income we 

will also grow larger every year. The same thing 

happened in yahoo, google, facebook, twitter, linkedin, 

and others when they still startup.

Deuteronomy {28:13} And the LORD shall make thee the 

head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and 

thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do [them: ]

Try to imagine this. If I give a very unique story. It was the first time in the world. But the world already know this story even liked it. Because the world love the game books. While the story that I made is the development of game books.
Do you Believe if I dare say if I will succeed because my story will be famous all over the world as Harry Potter?
I believe it. Not because I was the author of the story, but because of the story that I made is unique and the only one in the world. 
Income from my startup :
1. Ads. With millions of unique visitors, the price of the ads will be expensive.
2. Affiliate marketing. In addition to advertising, we are also able to put up some banner from affiliate marketing.
3. Contribution of the readers. If you have a million readers and every reader to pay one US dollar per year then you will get the income of one million US dollars per year. 
If you have a million readers and every reader to pay one US dollar per month then you will get as much revenue twelve million US dollars per year.
4. Books and Comics. After getting hundreds of thousands to the millions of readers of the story will be made in books and the form of a picture story (comics).
5. Movies. If we have a good story with millions of readers then quickly we will be offered to make a film based on the story.
6. Merchandise related to characters. After the movies there will be made an offer for the sale of goods related to the characters.
7. Sales. With millions of email that we have collected from our readers so we can sell anything to them.
    Each income (1-7) worth millions to tens of millions of US dollars. 
    Because each income (1-7) worth millions to tens of millions of US dollars. Then in 10-20 years into the future, AI will be earning hundreds of million USD annually.
So how long do you think my story that I made could gather a thousand readers? Ten thousand readers? One hundred thousand readers? A million readers? Five million readers? Ten million readers? More than ten million readers?
But to get all of it of course takes time, can not be instant. In addition, it takes hard work, big funds and placement of the right people in the right positions.
By advertising, viral marketing, strong marketing strategies and SEO then a million readers can be done in less than a year. Ten million readers can be done in two to three years.
This is the marketing strategy of my startup.
When hundreds of thousands or millions of readers already liked my story then they have to pay to enjoy the story that I made.
If you are a visionary then you will think like this.
With the help of my great name in the world of business, my expertise in marketing, advertising, marketing by mouth, viral marketing, then collecting a million readers to ten million readers will be easy to obtain. Is not that right?
The question now is what if people like my story as they like Harry Potter? You will get tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of email addresses from readers. With that much email, we can sell anything to the readers.
Since April 2013, Wikipedia has around 26 million articles in 285 languages are written by 39 million registered users and a variety of anonymous people who are not known from other parts of the world.  Web ranked by Alexa, Wikipedia is a famous website number 6 which has been visited by 12% of all Internet users with 80 million visitors every month and it is only from the calculation of America.

resource : http://www.tahupedia.com/content/show/136/Sejarah-dan-Asal-Mula-Wikipedia

If no Wikipedia then need hundreds of thousands to millions of books required to make 26 million articles in 285 languages into books.

With the Wikipedia then people started to leave to read a book or books to seek knowledge about a subject or many subjects.

The same thing will happen. Read a story in a book or books to be abandoned. Read a story with millions of choices on the web or blog is far more interesting than reading a book or books. 

So what happens next? In 10-20 years ahead then read a story in a book to be abandoned. Otherwise my startup will grow and continue to develop into a new entertainment industry.

New entertainment industry, where I was a forerunner startup will continue to evolve. 
Therefore, in 10-20 years into the future, my startup will be earning hundreds of million USD annually.

So do not delay. Invest your money immediately to my startup. Take A Look. There are so many advantages if you want to invest in my startup.
WHY YOU SHOULD INVEST YOUR MONEY RIGHT NOW? .
IF YOU INVEST YOUR FUNDS IN ONE, TWO OR THREE YEARS INTO THE FUTURE, YOU MAY BE TOO LATE.
BECAUSE IN 1-3 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE THEN I'VE GOT THE FUNDS. THE FUNDS CAN COME FROM SOME INVESTORS, LOANS FROM BANKS OR FROM ADVERTISEMENTS POSTED ON MY BLOG.

IF I'VE GOT A LARGE AMOUNT OF FUNDS THEN I'VE NO NEED OF YOUR FUNDS. SO INVEST NOW OR NOT AT ALL.

My BLOG started to be written January 11, 2015. TODAY, MAY 30, 2015, THE NUMBER OF CLICKS HAS REACHED 56,750. SO FAR SO GOOD.

If I get big funds from investors then with a quick story that I wrote will spread throughout the world.

So I got acceleration because I can put ads in a large variety of media such as Google AdWords, Facebook, and others. I also can perform a variety of other marketing strategies.
If I do not get funding from investors then my story would still spread throughout the world. But with a longer time, Slow but sure.

So either I get funding from investors or not, the story that I wrote will remain spread throughout the world. Ha ... 7x

So don't worry, be happy.

My advice to you is you should think whether the data that I have provided to you makes sense or not .
If my data reasonable then immediately invest your funds as soon as possible.

Then we discuss how we plan further cooperation.

Thank you.
Lord Jesus bless you.
Amen
P.S. The offer letter I gave also to the hedge funds and 

venture capital and other major companies 

in the entire 

world. So who is fast then he will get it.


P.P.S. In addition, there is one more thing I 

want to tell you. If a story can generate tens 

of millions of US dollars, then what if made 


many stories? Then why do not you make 2, 3 or many stories? You will get hundreds of million USD annually.

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