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==Mission and Purpose==
==Mission and Purpose==
Currently there is a confused profusion of Internet sites related to elections, referenda, and public and private governance questions involving a vote. Internet users often have to engage in long and often unproductive searches in order to find all the information they are seeking regarding any given vote in which they are interested.
As stated on their application: Currently there is a confused profusion of Internet sites related to elections, referenda, and public and private governance questions involving a vote. Internet users often have to engage in long and often unproductive searches in order to find all the information they are seeking regarding any given vote in which they are interested.
Monolith Registry, LLC envisions the .VOTE TLD to be an easily identifiable Internet space where users seeking information on any given election or question that is put to a vote can easily find information regarding issues, candidates and options. .VOTE will be not be open to the general public, but rather is intended for political candidates, political action committees (PACs), political committees, and other verifiable registrants.
Monolith Registry, LLC envisions the .VOTE TLD to be an easily identifiable Internet space where users seeking information on any given election or question that is put to a vote can easily find information regarding issues, candidates and options. .VOTE will be not be open to the general public, but rather is intended for political candidates, political action committees (PACs), political committees, and other verifiable registrants.
Due to the complexity of accommodating election laws around the world, initially .VOTE will be rolled out only in the U. S. The 85,006 governments in the United States had 513,200 elected officials in 1992, the latest year for which this data is available (http:⁄⁄www.census.gov⁄prod⁄2⁄gov⁄gc⁄gc92_1_2.pdf). By 2002, the governmental units in the United States had grown to 87,576 (http:⁄⁄www.census.gov⁄prod⁄2003pubs⁄gc021x1.pdf), and can be expected to have continued to grow to over 90,000 governmental units with nearly 550,000 elected officials today. Moreover, most elected positions have two or more candidates contesting for the position, pushing the total candidates for all elective offices to well over 1 million. Eventually, as other countries around the world begin to participate, this number is expected to grow exponentially
Due to the complexity of accommodating election laws around the world, initially .VOTE will be rolled out only in the U. S. The 85,006 governments in the United States had 513,200 elected officials in 1992, the latest year for which this data is available [http://www.census.gov⁄prod⁄2⁄gov⁄gc⁄gc92_1_2.pdf here]. By 2002, the governmental units in the United States had grown to 87,576 <ref>http://www.census.gov⁄prod⁄2003pubs⁄gc021x1.pdf</ref>, and can be expected to have continued to grow to over 90,000 governmental units with nearly 550,000 elected officials today. Moreover, most elected positions have two or more candidates contesting for the position, pushing the total candidates for all elective offices to well over 1 million. Eventually, as other countries around the world begin to participate, this number is expected to grow exponentially
The .VOTE TLD seeks to make available to each of these candidates a domain by which they can inform the electorate about the issues in question and make their case that they are the candidate of choice for that position. Similarly, governmental organizations on all levels can create domains that cover all the relevant information for elections, referenda, and other matters of decision in their jurisdictions.
The .VOTE TLD seeks to make available to each of these candidates a domain by which they can inform the electorate about the issues in question and make their case that they are the candidate of choice for that position. Similarly, governmental organizations on all levels can create domains that cover all the relevant information for elections, referenda, and other matters of decision in their jurisdictions.