Decentralized Lobbying

Sean Moore Gonzalez
2 min readDec 20, 2022

For the majority of Americans, lobbying is some abstract process going on somewhere else, and has helped capture our lawmakers. In America we have the right “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”, but our voices are drowned out by monied interests… If only we could decentralize those interests.

Lobby3 is proud to introduce DeVox 🤔 AmpliFi 🤔 LobbyVox 🤔 AmpliVox 🤔 LobbyFi 🤔 ImpactVox… help us choose 🗳🙂

DeVox is an Impact Protocol designed to decentralize control over the promotion of politicians. Only US Citizens can participate or donate. Petitions are crowdsourced. Donations are unlimited and pooled in escrow. Donations promote politicians supporting petitions. Donors participate in quadratic voting to release a petition’s escrow.

Lobby3 is simply a steward of the process, bound by law to execute the legal actions that could not be automated but are mandated by vote of the donors. The power to award the funds is entirely with the donors.

Generally speaking, decentralized governance can help strengthen democratic institutions by empowering citizens to participate more directly in the decision-making process. We’re starting with politics because “lobby” is in our name, and in time DeVox can expand to include institutions, institutionalized actors, influencers, celebrities, athletes, everyone who derives legitimacy from people. With a financial incentive to take grassroots opinions seriously by acting on them, DeVox can democratize our institutions at large.

Ideally, we want politicians to say what they mean, and mean what they say. Maybe we can accept politicians that say what we mean, and mean what we say… they represent us after all.

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Sean Moore Gonzalez

Data Science Consultant - Data Viz, Product Dev, Community Support