NEWS RELEASE                                                                                   June 2023

Voter Empowerment will Improve Life Quality

If you were told you would receive a million dollars by winning a chess game and that you could use a computerized chess master program or your congressman to help you, which would you choose?

The decisions you make as a voter are just as important, complex and amenable to the support of a chess master as the game itself. In fact, with chess each piece is restricted to certain types of moves. Politicians bend the rules making it more challenging. But a chess master with AI and the internet of Wisdom (IOW) is up to the challenge.

Many people feel that democracy is threatened, and that the complexity of issues combined with unreliable information is preventing individuals from voting in their own best interest.  Fortunately, we live in a new computerized environment where everyone can have a chess master supporting his unique wishes.

The program will advise you on the best choice of representatives and then continually instruct them while in office. The representative becomes the servant to you and not to the lobbyist.

It all revolves around a life quality metric.

Your wishes can be converted to a numerical choice based on your life quality desires. Many fail to take into account that goals involve a life quality, quantity balance. The volunteer for military service and the professional automobile racer each value life quality over quantity more so than the average. The priorities on wealth, property, art, entertainment, travel, education and other subjects vary and can be quantified in a metric using Quality Enhanced Life Days (QELD).  The importance of any aspiration is already quantified by your credit card and various other accessible records. The program can be enhanced by your personal input to insure the most reliable advice.

The entire value of the program rests on a simple truth. We are constantly making choices to reduce life quantity in return for quality. If we drive 3 hours to see a basketball game, we are statistically reducing our life by a few minutes proportional to the driving distance. But we accept this loss by the enhanced life quality of the event.  Any pleasure equal to that game can then receive the same rating regardless of whether there are actual risks to life. All initiatives possible through legislation or edict can be rated by QELD using this concept.

Mcilvaine created QELD through contracts with Fortune 500 companies covering subjects as diverse as single use surgical gowns and air pollution monitors.

The program creates a personal score card for each candidate resulting in a recommendation by the chess master.

Once the legislator is serving, your chess master will communicate your instructions to him.

One issue could be 15 x as important as another.  Your legislator has other constituents with different goals. So, he cannot be expected to vote your way on each issue. But if he does not vote your way on important issues you can vote for someone else the next time around.

Voter Empowerment Association

The bed rock of a program is the life quality desires of each voter. The structure to utilize this information can be an association of interested parties and could be called   “Voter Empowerment  Association”

The QELD program would be applied at every level where elections take place.  Many worry that the lack of local newspapers eliminates accountability. This new program would make local analysis very important. The billions of dollars going into campaigns would now be redistributed and focused on gathering the facts and applying the factors needed to link the voter aspirations to specific endeavors.

The primary benefit of the program would be a better life quality for individuals through better use of the taxpayer money. The ramifications for aspects of the economy would be huge. It would impact the distribution of funds for defense, infrastructure, education and welfare. Since the voter would be empowered the majority of outlays by groups representing commercial or non- profit interests would be toward insuring the most favorable life quality ratings for their product.

The goal would be to elect individuals who will be good negotiators and obtain the results they are instructed to pursue.

The life quality aspirations quantified in the program will be of the highest importance to retailers.  Money now going to candidates and lobbyists can be used to directly influence the voter/consumer. But the arguments have to be substantive and backed up by facts and factors.

The implementation of the program requires 3 ongoing analyses.

• Quantifying the life quality aspirations for each voter.
• Determining the legislative initiatives best able to achieve the voter’s aspirations.
• Integration and coordination with others needed to make sure the goals are met.

Accomplishing the goals through an association of interested entities may seem to be impossible.  But the structure has already been created using an Industrial Internet of Wisdom (IOW). The modest cost of the chess master program has already been demonstrated with billions of revenue forecasts for Air, Water, Energy suppliers using the program which gathers the relevant facts, applies appropriate factors and forecasts the impact.

The program is explained at www.mcilvainecompany.com

Bob Mcilvaine majored in domestic affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He subsequently has spent decades consulting for governments and private industry. Pollution control is regulated by cost /benefit ratios using Quality Adjusted Life years.  Health care is also regulated based on this metric which does not address true life quality goals. So, the evolution of QELD for election decisions comes from this background.

Information on the QELD program is available at http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/SURS/subscriber/Default.htm

A specific example incorporating tribal and future value discounts is shown at  http://mcilvainecompany.com/SURS/subscriber/Text/Quality_Enhanced_Life_Years.htm

 Here is an article on QELD appearing in a hospital magazine.

http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/images/Quality_Enhanced_Life_Days.pdf

Bob Mcilvaine can answer questions about the Voter Empowerment Association. He can be reached at 847 226 2391 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.