The highly specialized task of holding a global human referendum needs to be broken down into bite-sized pieces. The best channels for casting ballots are the existing voting infrastructures. Should all existing national and territorial voting structures be put to work in a combined effort, we could supply access to an estimated 4´600´000´000 people. 73%, or almost three quarters of the world population, are already enabled to vote at a "good" or at least "satisfactory" level of coverage.

In addition, even non-democratically elected regimes maintain a high level of administrative infrastructure that would easily allow for participation in the referendum to take place. If all these entities would put their organizational abilities behind a combined effort, a total of 6´142'474'350 or 97.5% of the world population could take part.

If we count only those people who live in a state of total nationwide social disruption, far-reaching violent conflict and the complete lack of infrastructure, we arrive at a conservative figure of approximately 157'525'650. That 2.5% living under the most extreme conditions also need to be included to complete the picture.

	I. EXISTING GLOBAL NETWORKS Specifically designed voting infrastructure and wide-reaching administration already exists.
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With individual voting and administration systems woven together to form the basic backbone of the referendum process, the orchestration of the activity in all the countries and territories becomes an issue. The gathering of billions of individual pieces of information, over the widest possible geographical reach takes on impressive proportions. Nothing on the scale of the global human referendum has ever been attempted before. However some organizations at work today also operate at respectable magnitudes.

Several market leaders, amongst commercial enterprises, claim that they distribute their products in over 200 countries and territories. This complex and highly coordinated dance of supply and demand doesn't happen in a vacuum. A vast manufacturing and distribution network, run by people, stands behind this effort.

Not just the distribution of products, but also the procurement of raw materials has taken us to the farthest reaches of the earth. No expense or logistical challenge has prevented mankind from prospecting and collecting natural resources, no matter how far away, deeply hidden, cold, hot or how dangerous the path has been. The same persistance can be applied to new and ambitious goals.

Broadcasting corporations and networks claim to be emitting their programs in over 200 countries and territories. The news business isn't a one-way-street. No matter where a story strikes, in a matter of hours, journalists flock to the scene and can instantaneously transmit their reports back around the planet.

The arena of sport seems to be a great unifier. The Olympic Organization officially hosts athletes from 199 countries on a regular basis. That also means coordinating the behind-the-scenes relations with functionaries and committees for all these countries.

Also among worldwide political entities to date, the 191-member United Nations stands out prominently, especially in the area of attempting to address humanitarian needs. No matter how marginalized and embattled the organization has become and how flawed its current decision making process is there is much to learn from United Nation activities.

From corporate, financial and technological networks to humanitarian, spiritual and cultural groups, far-reaching organization has become the norm.