Senator On-Line

Infobox Australian Political Party
party_name = Senator On-Line
party_
party_wikicolourid = Other
leader = Berge Der Sarkissian
deputy = Sue Cluss
president =
foundation = 2007
disbanded =
predecessor =
successor =
headquarters =
ideology = Electronic Direct Democracy
position =
international =
website = http://www.senatoronline.org.au

Senator On-Line (abr. SOL) is a registered Australian political party that contested the 2007 Federal election. It is running ten candidates for the Australian Senate.

Unlike other political parties, Senator On-Line does not have any policies of its own. Instead it will conduct an online poll for every bill that passes before the Senate. Anyone on the Australian electoral roll who is not a member of another political party will be allowed to register to vote in these polls and will be allowed one vote per bill. The senators will then be required to vote in accordance with the clear majority (70% and more than 100,000 votes). If there is no clear majority the senators will abstain from voting.

Candidates

Restults

Senator On-Line received over 8000 votes nationally in the 2007 Australian Federal Election - a reasonable result and better than the national votes for four other parties.

External links

* [http://www.senatoronline.org.au/ Senator Online Website]
* [http://www.senatoronline.org.au/constitution Party Constitution]
* [http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Registered_parties/sol.htm Australian Electoral Commission page]
* [http://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/federal_elections/2007/data_extracts/downloads/scands.csv AEC: List of Senate Candidates] _CSV

Media coverage

* The Australian: [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22560794-5013404,00.html New party pushes online votes] by Patricia Karvelas 10/10/07
* mX: Online party, Power to the people. by Rebecca Beisler 11/10/07
* Slashdot: [http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/15/1537253 Australians Running On-Line Poll Based Senators] 15/10/07
* The Sydney Morning Herald: [http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/online-party-hopes-to-click-with-voters/2007/10/18/1192300920221.html Online party hopes to click with voters] by Asher Moses 18/10/07
* The Canberra Times: Net party to hand power to masses. by Michael Ruffles 25/10/07
* CRN Australia: [http://www.crn.com.au/Feature/3977,democracy-the-web-20-way.aspx Democracy the Web 2.0 way] by Mitchell Bingemann 29/10/07