Senator Online seeks candidates for Federal election

07 July 2010

Registered in August 2007, SOL claims to be Australia's "first and only internet-based political party", promising to conduct online votes on major issues and act in Parliament accordingly. If elected, SOL senators will engage with the public via a website that allows constituents to vote on which issues should be raised in parliament, and how the senator should vote on particular Bills. Any issue receiving over 10,000 endorsements will be included on the website alongside what the party claims to be unbiased information, expert opinion and analysis. SOL senators will vote in accordance with voters in their state - even if this means voting against another SOL senator - and only vote on Bills if a "clear majority view" is determined by at least 100,000 votes and a 70 percent majority view. "The very vast majority of senators are just told what to do by their party," SOL founder Berge Der Sarkissian told iTnews. "Decisions are very rarely left up to a conscience vote ... When do you hear about senators actually crossing the floor? "We're not talking about running the country; we're talking about representing a majority view to parliament," he said.

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