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MEDIA RELEASE 6 October 2004 Peter King votes for the Dome of Conscience Today Peter King, the sitting member for Wentworth, voted in the Federal Parliament's Dome of Conscience and committed to keep voting if elected. It's a transparent online conscience voting chamber just for elected officials and until October 9th all federal candidates can join the vote. It operates through the website www.domeaus.com. 140 other federal candidates have voted in the last seven days with many more joining every day. "By committing to vote regularly in the Parliament's Dome of Conscience I am saying to the people of Wentworth that you will always know where I stand on the big issues and which issues rate foremost in my mind at the time. It's a guarantee for honesty and now that this technology is available all candidates should use it," said Peter King. "This is a very interesting idea that will produce an integrated voice of the Parliament in the form of a live issues scoreboard, never before seen. In this forum all parliamentarians have an equal voice and I will use it to give Wentworth voters a stronger voice," said Peter King. "A transparent parliament means a stronger democracy and this is good for the economy, environment, security, social justice and the health of everyone," said Peter King. "Liberal's Greg Hunt launched this idea in the House in 2002. Since then I see seven Labor sitting members or candidates have voted in the Dome. So we all know it's a great idea. I have not heard anyone say it isn't. It's time for all parliamentarians to vote in the transparent Dome of Conscience," said Peter King. "I think this is a great idea and I hope all Members of all Parliaments will join it," said leading political analyst, Malcolm Mackerras. "The Dome encourages creative thinking in the parliament. Anyone can float an opinion placard on a new idea at any time but the author of the new opinion is suppressed. It means that new ideas floated in the Dome do not belong to anyone and this takes the politics out of the debate," said Ralph McKay, founder of BigPulse.com, the company that donates the Dome of Conscience website to the parliament. It's a polling invention that works like a continuous, transparent and competitive Opinion Market - an idea inspired originally by the way financial markets work. There are no questions, surveys or pollsters. Any federal candidate can float a new opinion in the virtual voting chamber any time. Opinions are expressed as concise single line statements called "placards". All opinion placards compete continuously for votes from candidates and are ranked live in a leaderboard for all to see. Each placard also has a separate dedicated debating forum where candidates can post comments and speeches. Repeat voting is encouraged and never causes vote stacking as the system counts the last vote only for each candidate. Voting is fully transparent. The Dome shows the collective voice of all candidates, the Parliament as a whole, the Senate and House of Representatives separately, as well the vote count of each party and each candidate. To see the Dome of Conscience, comments from people of influence and the Dome history visit www.domevote.com. The Federal Parliament voting chamber can be accessed directly with www.domeaus.com. |
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