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Survey #1: Community Feedback for Important CUSD Issues
My name is Long Jiao and I am a candidate running to be a CUSD Board Member in 2024. I am running because I believe CUSD can be better by having the community involved for important issues, and I believe our Democracy can be better by involving the community for important issues. I would like…
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Survey FAQs
Q: Why don’t you use existing, fully commercialized online survey systems? A: I would like the online survey system to achieve following goals: Unfortunately, I didn’t find an existing survey system achieving my goals above, leading me to create my own system. Q: Why do you provide two survey URLs in the invitation email? A:…
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The ROI of Politics
You probably heard that most people are not interested in politics. Politics is about public affairs, which affects everyone. Then why people are not interested in participating something that affects themselves? I think it is because the ROI (Return on Investment) is too low with current practices of Democracy. Most of the decisions for public…
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The Level of Democracy
The practices of Democracy are not the same because they may be on different levels. We define the level of Democracy as the sum of two scores: In Cupertino, people control some concrete issues in the form of Measures (local level) and Propositions (state level), but nothing for Federal level. In every two years, there…
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Why Our Current Democracy System Failed?
Don’t make me wrong. I like the idea of Democracy. But I don’t like our current practices of Democracy. Our current practice is the Trustee Model of Representation. Voters vote for a candidate based on the belief that the candidate will represent them properly. Once elected, the representative works on their own for two, four…