The purpose of this website is to promote majority rule in America by enabling U.S. voters to curb the influence of special interests that fund electoral campaigns and break the political stalemate in Washington, D.C. between the Democratic and Republican Parties.

1. State legislative practices that legalize the gerrymandering of election districts;

2. Campaign finance laws that favor private financing of elections over public;

3. Federal and state election laws that thwart the election of major party insurgent candidates and prevent the emergence of competitive third parties;

4. Legislative rules like the U.S. Senate's "filibuster" and "secret hold" that allow a minority of Senators representing a minority of the population to block legislation favored by the majority of Senators representing a majority of the population..

5. Electoral practices of the two major parties, the Democratic and Republican parties, which give party officials and candidates rather than voters the decisive role in determining the parties' and candidates' platforms and legislative agendas and who will run for office on party lines.

• The parties have passed election laws in the states where they control the state legislature that make it extremely difficult for candidates without major party backing to win elections. State and federal election laws also make it difficult if not impossible for third parties to win elections or obtain representation proportional to the votes they receive. So voters who want their vote to count are limited to choosing between the two major parties and their candidates when they vote.

• As a result, dissatisfied voters tend to jockey back and forth between major party candidates in a desperate attempt to get relief from the incumbent, only to find that the new representative they elect follows closely in the footsteps of the defeated incumbent.

• The other aspect of major party electoral practices that undermines voters' influence is their refusal to provide their supporters formal mechanisms for articulating their policy priorities across the board and political spectrum, as the Interactive Voter Choice System does. As a result, party candidates can run and win on platforms that are not generated by the voters and are often disconnected from voters' real priorities, needs and wants.

• Candidates make different promises to different segments of voters, and camouflage their real intent by making ambiguous, incomplete, evasive and even deceptive statements on the campaign trail.

• Since candidates tend to receive a larger amount of campaign contributions from non-voting special interests than their voting constituents, electoral candidates often have two sets of agendas, one for special interests, which they do not reveal, and the other for their constituents, which they make public.

• They can use the website's tools and services to build self-organizing voting blocs, political parties and electoral coalitions around shared policy priorities.

• For the first time in history, voters, voter-controlled blocs, parties and coalitions can provide written legislative mandates to electoral candidates and elected representatives, and use the mandates to hold them accountable for their legislative track records.

• Voters can use their voting blocs to work within existing political parties, take organizational control of existing parties, or create new parties.

• They can use their policy agendas to evaluate announced candidates, and recruit, screen, nominate and elect their own candidates.

• Voters can prevent the fragmentation of the electorate into splinter groups lacking the voting strength to win elections by using the invention's consensus building and outreach tools and services to expand the membership of their voting blocs, parties and coalitions to acquire the voting strength needed to win elections.

1. Legislative mandate to elected representatives and electoral candidates;

2. Gateway to locating and teaming up with voters who have statistically similar policy priorities to build winning voting blocs, political parties and electoral coalitions that have the voting strength to elect representatives who will enact their priorities into law;

3. Rating tool for evaluating announced candidates and recruiting prospective candidates;

4. Monitoring tool for tracking and overseeing elected representatives' legislative actions;

5. Score card and decision-making tool for evaluating elected representatives' legislative track records when voters are deciding whether to vote for or against their re-election.

• Set their policy agendas across the board. They can weigh their policy options by accessing the Policy Options Database free of charge on the website, www.reinventingdemocracy.us. In addition to selecting their policy priorities from a comprehensive database of 104 options, they can propose new options. They can update their selection of options at any time.

• Email their agendas to their elected representatives to pressure them to enact their policy priorities into law. They can also request their representatives to use the Policy Options Database to define their policy agendas and legislative priorities so voters can compare their respective stances and decide whether to vote for their re-election.

• Reset the nation's policy priorities so they represent the preferences of the voters rather than U.S. lawmakers or the special interests that fund their electoral campaigns. Voters can use the Policy Options Database as if it were a poll, and with one click send the priorities they have selected to the Policy Priorities Database. Voters' priorities will be tallied and published online as Public Opinion Reports, which can be data-mined and disaggregated down to the election district level.

• Find and contact voters with statistically similar priorities to create policy-oriented social networking groups hosted on the website. The groups will be provided similar networking, collaboration and communication tools and services as those provided by social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

• Build online self-organizing voting blocs around shared policy priorities that leverage the large scale collective action potential of the Internet to become the control centers of American politics and government.

• Use the website's consensus-building tools to negotiate common policy agendas with broad-cross sections of voters in order to increase the voting strength of their voting blocs until they can win elections.

• Use voting blocs to work within existing political parties, take organizational control of existing parties or create new parties.

• Build electoral coalitions across party lines to prevent the fragmentation of the electorate into splinter groups lacking the voting strength to win elections.

• End elected representatives' conflicts of interest caused by campaign contributions from special interests, which can now spend unlimited funds on political campaigns