Most of the demos voting demonstration (demo) pages have to be scrolled vertically to see the whole page. The demo displays better on a device with a larger screen.

The book Beyond Plutocracy - True Democracy for America is simply referred to as Beyond in Demo Notes.

Most of the demo pages have Demo Note links. When you select a Demo Note link, a popup window will display information relevant to your current location in the demo. Demo Notes contain explanations about how to vote on an issue, advisories about the limitations of this demo, or comments about how a real demos site would function. When you finish reading a note, simply close the popup window.

This demo cannot be fully understood or appreciated until you have read Beyond.

This simple demo cannot fully convey the look, feel, and function of a real demos. At best, it can only give you something of an idea about voting in a real demos. The demo's Sign-In, Vote Summary, and twelve issue voting pages are like the tip of an iceberg visible above the water. Most of the iceberg is found beneath the surface. In a real demos, each of the nine economic and three electoral issues has its own hierarchy of pages containing information about and demos member deliberations of the issue. Also not included in the demo, demos deliberations are not limited to these twelve issues. In a vast, organized "deliberations tree" discussed in Beyond, Chapter 9, demos members may add issues to the tree for discussion.

Limited to only the barest representation of the voting pages and including no other pages, the image of the demos conveyed by this demo will likely seem too simplistic to one who would delve into in-depth pro and con discussion, demos member deliberations, and further information and research. An actual demos would include all of these features and capabilities along with several search, filtering, list sorting, member communication, and other tools.

In a real demos, there are links that lead to discussion about how to vote on issues, further information, pro and con discussion, candidate information, etc. None of these pages exist in this simple demos demonstration. All such links only lead to a popup Demo Note, not to the vast participation space of a real demos.

This demo was designed to display reasonably well (best compromise) on screens ranging from large desktop monitors, notebook computers, tablets, and cellphones. The demo's screen width is 750 pixels. On large screens, the demo page and text appears fairly small but still clearly viewable. (Hint: Increase your browser's zoom.) On cellphones, the page display may seem a bit crowded and the text size a bit large.

Some of the demo voting pages allow you to select buttons or text links to change your votes. Along with the twelve demos issue voting pages, this demo has a Vote Summary page. In this limited demo, any changes of votes on the demos issue pages are not reflected on the Vote Summary page. Nor are your votes actually sent anywhere when you select the yellow "Send votes to the demos system" button on the Vote Summary page.

In a real demos, when you leave a voting issue's page, your vote is automatically saved. You may jump among issues and change votes as freely as you like. Your current vote on each issue is always saved. When you click the Send Votes button on the Vote Summary page, all your saved votes are sent to the demos. Even if you leave the demos and return later, your votes are still saved, your current vote for each issue is displayed when you return to the page. In this simple demo, votes are not saved. Each time you go to an issue, the page is set to its initial state.

You may vote as often as you like and repeatedly change your votes on demos issues at any time. Every demos vote must be updated (either changed or confirmed as is) at least once a year by coming to this Vote Summary page and selecting the yellow Send Votes button. You're in good standing for a year. But you need not wait a year. You may come back to the demos and change your votes at any time.

Your votes on issues using pie or line charts cannot be displayed on the Vote Summary page.

The yellow Send Votes button is also the exit button for the demo. Wherever you are in the demo, when you want to exit, select Go to Vote Summary page and select the Send Votes button.

In a real demos, selecting a More Information on This Issue link will lead to a hierarchy of pages containing detailed information relevant to the specific demos issue. These pages may contain descriptions, reports, graphs, charts, tables, a standard set of information on candidates running for office, etc. that aid in increasing one's understanding of the issue or person at hand.

In this demos demo, all such links only lead to this note.

In a real demos, selecting a Pro and con discussion, or P&C link (pro & con) on an issue's page will lead to an area of the demos where demos members express pro and con discussion specific to the issue. In this demos demo, all such links lead only to this note.

With potentially millions of people participating in such deliberations, how is it determined which views make it to the top of the heap for greatest visibility? As described in Beyond Chapter 9, a view, which can be presented by any member of the demos, receives higher positioning and greater visibility based on a combination of earning the votes of demos members who favor the view and a special "round robin" mechanism that gives all views their fair share of visibility.

In Beyond, Chapter 25, a new way of calculating wages and benefits is proposed in which both wages and benefits are paid on a sliding scale, each hour earning more wages and benefits than the previous hour. The minimum wage set by the demos defines the minimum wage that can be paid for an employee's first hour of work.

The amount we tax ourselves to finance the federal government is expressed as a percentage of all private sector income (including inherited) and revenue earned in the nation. The current percentage figure used in this demo is 22%. This does not mean that every taxpayer is taxed at this 22% rate, but that all of the taxes on private individuals, businesses, and corporations paying taxes at varying tax rates taken as a whole average out to be 22%. The amount that a particular taxpayer is taxed depends upon the amount of the taxpayer's annual revenue or income.

In this pie chart, the whole pie represents 100%, so the total of all slices must always equal 100%. If you color any slice green to increase its share, at least one other slice must be red to decrease its share. Likewise, if you color any slice red, at least one slice must be green.

If you try to give all slices the same color, the pie cannot stay at 100%, so this message appears. Close this Demo Note and choose a different slice.

In this demo, the three issues that use the line graph voting method have the same tax rate line. In an actual demos, the electorate would have set a differing line for each issue.

For the dollar amounts listed along the bottom horizontal line of the graph, K = thousand, M = million, B = billion, and T = trillion.

You vote by selecting various segments of the tax rate line and coloring them green to increase the tax rate, yellow to keep it as it is, or red to decrease it. Two horizontally moveable vertical lines are used to delimit or define a segment of the tax rate line. Simply drag one vertical line until it intersects one end of the desired segment of the tax rate line and drag the second vertical line until it intersects the other end of the desired segment. When you complete the selection action, green, yellow, and red buttons pop up from which you choose a color. The selected line segment will be colored the color you chose. You may repeatedly select segments of the tax rate line of any length and mixture of colors. All segments will end up the colors you select.

Notice in Issue 8 the sentence, "Our nation's national debt is..." and that the word "debt" is colored red. We have no counterpart to "national debt", something like "national savings". But we should have national savings. If we did have both, debt would be subtracted from savings to arrive at a final figure. If the final figure is negative, then we have a national debt, and in issue 8 "Our nation's national debt is..." would be a red-colored "debt", just as it reads now. However, if the final figure is positive, then we have a national savings, and in issue 8 the sentence would read "Our nation's national savings is..." and the word "savings" would be colored green. (Sigh.)

In the demos electoral system, the president and senators are elected from the nation at large, and representatives are elected from states at large. Although the nation has 100 senators and each state has several representatives, each member of the electorate may cast a vote for only one senator from the nation at large and one representative from his or her state at large.

For the three electoral issues (10, 11, and 12) involving the election of the president, senators, and representatives, the demo only contains three names in what may actually be very long candidates lists. In an actual demos, the people with the highest ranking names in the candidates lists would be currently seated in office, and their names in the candidates lists would be colored red or indicated in some other manner. The highest ranking name in the presidential candidates list, the top 100 names in the senators list, and — the number of representatives differing in various states — the top names in the representatives list for each state would indicate candidates who are currently seated in office.

Candidates' individual demos pages will follow a strict, standard demos format, as will all demos pages. Whether running for office or not, all members of the electorate will be able to link their private web sites outside the demos to their personal demos pages within the demos. On their own sites outside the demos, they may present what they say in any way that they please.

One task of demos managers would be to verify that each person in a candidates list for president, senator, or representative qualifies for the office that they are seeking. It would be the voters of course that make final decisions as to the suitability of candidates for office. But for each name on a list, the demos would check such things as: that a name on a list is indeed that of a living person, that the person is an American born or naturalized citizen, and that the person meets age and residency requirements for the office being sought. As a candidate progressed further up a candidates list and enjoyed a serious possibility of actually winning office, the demos would take a closer look at such things as criminal records, physical and mental health, etc. Or a candidate may stop running for office for personal reasons. Verification would be an ongoing process and a candidate could be removed from a list at any time over the years.

When voting, your currently selected candidate (green on the voting page) may no longer be available, and you would have to write in a new name (yellow) or pick a new name from the candidate’s list (red). A person whose name you wrote in may not qualify, and once again you would have to write in a new name or pick a new candidate from the list.

You vote for a candidate in the Candidates list by selecting the Vote link before the candidate's name. The word "Vote" becomes bold, uppercase, and red VOTE, the candidate's name is displayed in the Current Selection box at the top of the screen, and the candidate's vote total is increased by one. (Holding your screen pointer or finger over a candidate's Rank number, displays a tiny popup window containing the candidate's Total Vote count.) Your previous selection, if in the Candidates list, returns to Vote, and that candidate's vote total is decreased by one.