About Us

April 25, 2004

Dear fellow concerned citizen,

One afternoon I was kicking around the idea of creating a new, web-based political party with a few friends.  Some of us were Republicans, some were Democrats and others were just disgusted with the whole process.  We also realized that among ourselves and our other friends each of us might be considered conservative, liberal, moderate, independent, “green” or otherwise on any given issue.

About the only thing we knew we had in common was that we all cared about the future of our country, and our belief that many of the choices made by our government in recent years had consequences worse than the original problem.  Further, we were all tired of having our choices on each issue limited by the vote we cast in the last election.  The more we talked the more we realized that having another choice on election day wouldn’t really give us any more say on each issue.  What we really wanted was a way to communicate our opinions on the issues facing our government, and then hold our elected representatives, from whichever party, more accountable for their choices.  In other words, we wanted issues-based politics not party-based politics!

We decided that it would be great if we could use the internet to:

• Decide on the issues most important to us,
• Learn both the facts and all of the opinions on the issues,
• Discuss our opinions with each other,
• Come to some sort of consensus, including minority views, and
• Get that consensus to our congressmen, senators and even the President!

So a few days later I, a CPA “sole-practitioner,” met with one of the other members of our group, a “webmaster” for one of the larger companies in town, and we decide to form a partnership to explore the possibility of creating a website to accomplish these goals.  We further agreed that the website had to be:

• Independent of any political party or special interest group,
• Subscribed to by individuals registered, or at least eligible, to vote,
• Supported by the members, not muddled with a lot advertising, and still be affordable,
• Focused on the main issues, or legislation, currently in front of our government,
• Populated with objective information as well as links to all points of view,
• Allow for discussion among the participants, and
• Finally, but most important, able to communicate our opinions in a timely, thoughtful and concise way to our elected representatives!

And so, after several weeks of thought, planning, and programming – X-voter was born!  It definitely isn’t perfect, but it’s a real good start.  What will make it closer to perfect, is participation by people like you.  As you will see when you browse through X-voter, its future will be determined by its members.  And we believe the more members X-voter has the more interesting its future will be, and the more it will help determine the future of our country – and for the better!

Therefore, if you are a busy person who wants to participate more effectively in the best governmental system yet devised by man, and you are interested primarily in the issues, not the politics, then we hope you will become a member of X-voter, and urge your friends to do the same because - Democracy does work!

Sincerely,

Ray Darnell