Replace Congress with Online Voting

Replace Congress with Online Voting

Over 230+ years ago in 1776 when Congress was conceived and created, there was no Internet, TV, or Radio. There weren't even any telephones or telegraph (that came nearly two decades later).  The only way to be represented was to elect a local person you trusted and send them packing to Washington DC, hoping that your needs & interests would be ethically and fairly argued for.

Today, Congress no longer works for the people, nor do they represent our interests.  Instead, they represent the highest and/or most aggressive special interests & lobbyists.  They are so far out of touch with reality that they routinely ignore the needs of their constituents and don't even realize they're doing it.  Congress is so broken that the system is now useless and irreparable in my opinion.  Influenced almost solely by well-organized and powerful lobbyists, special interests (Big Pharma being the most powerful, followed by Big Oil, Big Coal and Big Ag) they are passing laws that:

1. refuse to reform the tax code and take the necessary steps to eliminate the federal deficit,
2. poison our bodies with processed foods and often useless & unnecessary drugs, 
3. poison our water & air with toxic emissions and waste from burning fossil fuels and nuclear energy that are (as of 2013) surprisingly more expensive than renewable energy in 75% of the country, and
4. choke entrepreneurs with unnecessary and cumbersome laws.

So I recommend that we throw them all out altogether and move towards a modern-day society that is governed by the Executive Branch (the President and his/her administration), the Judicial Branch (our courts) and shift the responsibilities of the Legislative Branch (formerly Congress) - passing laws - directly to the people.  How?

Here are some ideas, and I welcome others to contribute to this concept to make it more elegant, but keep it simple (not always easy to do both, huh?).

1. Put this plan directly on the ballot in 2014 in every state as a voter referendum to bypass resistance from Congress and state legislatures (this process would require a lot of people working to get the required signatures).
2. Every citizen in the nation would be able to register to vote online and be given a unique voter ID registration number that would be tied to their email address and mobile phone.  Poor or elderly people without email addresses or mobile phones would be given a free email (in the manner of Gmail and Hotmail) by the Federal Voter Database, which could be utilized on any computer or tablet (such as at any public library, hospital, nursing home, hotel, etc.).
3. Elect one (1) Federal Senator per state to oversee the integrity of a new Online Voting system, speak about the results of their state's votes in televised sessions on C-SPAN, and prevent fraud within the system.
4. Federal Senators would live in each state Capital.  Preventing the Federal Senator's residence in Washington DC would reduce influence "within the beltway" of DC by the special interests.  
5. Set up an Online Voting system managed in Washington DC by a non-partisan group from the NSA or Homeland Security, using their best IT technicians and anti-hacking teams to ensure integrity.  This should not take an army of people, as technology for online voting these days is rudimentary.  The effort will be solely on certifying voters as real people and preventing fraud, hacking, and duplicate votes.
6. Each state would gather and organize any nominated issues desired by its population, and submit these issues for new laws or changes in existing law to the state legislature (which may also be eliminated and replaced by a state-level Online Voting system if desired).  The issues receiving the most votes (by a majority or super-majority) would be submitted to the Federal Senator's office.
7. Once per quarter, each Federal Senator would submit their state's issues to the Federal Legislative Database (the "Database").  The Database would combine similar issues from multiple states into a single consolidated issue and add those to the Popular Issue List, and separate each distinct issue into a Discreet Issue List.  The Database would then automatically send out emails to a random group of Registered Voters asking them to vote on whether the Discreet Issue List is important to them.  Any issues on the Discreet Issue List that receive more than 50% approval (or 66% approval for any issues that would increase taxes or government spending) will be added to the National Issue List along with each of the Popular Issue List issues.
8. Once per quarter, every registered voter in the nation would be invited, via email or text message, to vote on the issues contained in the National Issue List. Issues that would increase taxes or increase federal spending (outside of a pre-approved 1% annual inflation increase) would require a super-majority of at least 66% approval in the National Vote.  Any other issues, including those that would decrease taxes, receiving votes of more than 50% would be passed as laws and implemented / enforced by the Executive Branch (the President's administration) after a mandatory review  of no more than 60 days by the Judicial Branch as to its lawfulness.
9. Fire every existing Senator and Representative, effective January 2017 at the end of the Lame Duck period after the new Federal Senators are elected in 2016.  Who-hoo!
10. Finally, a government for the people, by the people.

I welcome your feedback, and would love to hear from some volunteers who would like to take this on and lead this effort.