HOW RATIFICATION WORKS Citizens Ratification Inc. – Educational Page INTRO Citizen ratification operates through a secure monthly Portal cycle. Citizens record Accept or Reject selections on measures that apply to their jurisdiction. A simple majority of those who participate decides the outcome, provided the 10 percent participation threshold is met. The three-strike rule and clear reset conditions keep the process deliberate and fair. Every step is governed by the self-executing text of the Citizens Ratification Amendment. The process adds a permanent, transparent layer of continuing consent while leaving the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of the existing branches fully intact. Government continues to govern; citizens simply retain the constitutional capacity to withhold consent when it is no longer given. 05.01 MONTHLY PORTAL CYCLE All enforceable laws, executive orders, and regulations are presented monthly through the secure national CRB Portal. Citizens may record their selections at any time during the month. At the end of the cycle the official tally is certified. The Amendment requires that every enforceable act of government—statutory law, executive order, or regulation—at every level of government be presented each month on the secure national Citizens Ratification Branch Portal. The monthly cycle is the constitutional unit of time. Citizens of voting age who have been verified through the Portal’s authentication system may record a selection of Accept or Reject at any moment while the cycle remains open. When the cycle closes, the Director certifies the official tally under oath or penalty of perjury. The certified result then interacts with the three-strike rule and the ten-percent participation threshold to determine whether a strike is recorded, whether a regulation becomes enforceable, or whether the strike count is reset. 05.02 RECORDING ACCEPT / REJECT SELECTIONS Citizens cast selections of Accept or Reject. A majority of participating citizens recording their selections determines acceptance or rejection. Selections may be cast at any time and can be changed until the cycle closes. The only choices available to a verified citizen are Accept or Reject. No other options are recognized. A simple majority of those citizens who actually record a selection within the relevant jurisdiction decides the outcome of that cycle, provided the ten-percent participation threshold is satisfied. Selections may be entered at any time during the open cycle and may be changed by the same citizen until the cycle formally closes. Once the cycle closes and the Director certifies the tally, the recorded selections become final for purposes of that month’s determination. 05.03 JURISDICTION FILTERING Voting is jurisdiction-specific: Federal measures – nationwide State measures – only residents of that state County and municipal measures – only residents of the affected jurisdiction Only citizens directly governed by a measure can ratify or reject it. Jurisdiction is enforced with constitutional precision. Federal measures are open to selection by every registered Portal user in the United States. State measures are open solely to registered Portal users whose verified residence lies within that state. County and municipal measures are open solely to registered Portal users whose verified residence lies within the specific county or municipality affected by the measure. This filtering ensures that only those citizens who are directly bound by a measure participate in the decision that determines its continuing enforceability. 05.04 CERTIFICATION PROCESS Each official tally of citizen selections is certified under oath or penalty of perjury by the Director of the Citizens Ratification Branch. At the close of every monthly cycle the Director of the Citizens Ratification Branch must certify the official tally. The certification is made under oath or under penalty of perjury. The certified tally is the sole constitutional record of the selections cast in that cycle and is the document upon which the three-strike rule and the participation threshold operate. 05.05 FORENSIC AUDITS Forensic audits of all selections are conducted. Transparent results are published in the Portal. Every selection recorded on the Portal is subject to forensic audit. The audits examine the integrity of authentication, the accuracy of the tally, and the absence of any tampering or irregularity. The results of each audit are published transparently within the Portal so that any citizen may examine them. Continuous forensic capability is a mandatory feature of the system. 05.06 NOTIFICATIONS AND PUBLIC NOTICES Upon the first or second rejection of any measure, citizens receive immediate Portal notification of the rejection count and status. Public notices support broader awareness. When a measure receives a first or second qualifying rejection, every registered Portal user in the relevant jurisdiction receives immediate electronic notification of the current rejection count and the measure’s status. In addition, the Amendment contemplates supporting public notices—through means appropriate to the jurisdiction—so that citizens who have not yet registered on the Portal may become aware of accumulating strikes and may choose to participate in subsequent cycles. 05.07 RESET RULES Any intervening month that fails the participation threshold or yields approval resets the strike count to zero. The three-strike rule requires three consecutive monthly cycles that each meet the ten-percent participation threshold and each produce a majority Reject selection. Any intervening month that falls below the participation threshold, or that produces a majority Accept selection, automatically resets the strike count to zero. The requirement of consecutiveness prevents transient or low-participation dissatisfaction from voiding a measure and ensures that only sustained, majority rejection meeting the constitutional threshold has legal effect. 05.08 PASSIVE ACCEPTANCE VS ACTIVE REJECTION A measure that is not explicitly rejected remains enforceable. Non-participation (passive acceptance) does not count as a rejection. Only active majority rejection that meets the 10 percent threshold records a strike. Citizens who support a measure may simply leave it alone or proactively record an Accept selection. Standing preferences can be set with Sentinel AI for continuous ratification of favored categories. Enforceability continues unless and until a measure receives three consecutive qualifying rejections. Mere non-participation by a citizen has no legal effect; it is treated as passive acceptance. A strike is recorded only when at least ten percent of registered Portal users in the relevant jurisdiction actively participate and a majority of those participants record Reject. Citizens who support a measure need take no action; the measure remains enforceable by default. Citizens who wish to affirm support may record an Accept selection. In addition, a citizen may instruct Sentinel to apply standing preferences—for example, continuous ratification of all measures that expand a particular right or that fall within a defined category—so that favored measures receive automatic Accept selections and never accumulate a first strike. The system is deliberately designed so that the ordinary citizen’s burden remains light while the power of sustained, active public disapproval remains decisive. 05.09 TREATMENT OF EXISTING MEASURES Existing measures are entered into the Master Law Library. Laws and executive orders remain enforceable unless and until they receive three consecutive rejections. Regulations that have not yet received three consecutive ratifications do not become enforceable until they do. Nothing restricts the legislative or executive branches from revising, reissuing, or reenacting measures after rejection. Upon establishment of the Master Law Library, every existing statutory law, executive order, and regulation is entered into the Library. Statutory laws and executive orders that are already in force remain fully enforceable and become subject to the three-strike rejection process. Regulations that have not yet received three consecutive ratifications do not acquire enforceability until those three consecutive ratifications occur and the regulation is properly entered in the Library as enforceable. A measure that is voided by three consecutive qualifying rejections is immediately marked unratified in the Library and may no longer be enforced in its rejected form. The legislative and executive branches retain complete authority to revise the measure, to reissue it in altered form, or to reenact an entirely new measure. Any such new or revised measure returns to the Portal and begins the ratification or rejection process anew. Rejection under the Amendment is a withdrawal of consent; it is not a judicial invalidation and places no permanent barrier on the power of the other branches to respond. Source: ACTIVE CRA PROJECT SUMMARY & MASTER REFERENCE President: Jeff Gunson (USAF Ret.), Citizens Ratification Inc. Contact: (903) 646-1735 | JeffGunson@hotmail.com | www.CitizensRatification.com