Re:Votebook – A proposal for a blockchain-based electronic v...
by theptip on Saturday December 10, 2016 @12:50AM
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An interesting proposal in this area is Google's "Liquid Voting", which implements an idea that I've wanted to see tried for a long time.
Essentially votes can be cast on every subject (for the very interested voters), or delegated to another representative (for the less interested voters).
This could have some interesting side-effects, not all positive; I'd expect volatility and cult of personality to increase. But then that's the trajectory of politics in general recently, so perhaps there's not much more to lose. Benefits would include the ability for voters to actually enact the legislation that they want, but which no legislators will choose to implement (e.g. anti-corruption/insider trading laws).
Essentially votes can be cast on every subject (for the very interested voters), or delegated to another representative (for the less interested voters).
This could have some interesting side-effects, not all positive; I'd expect volatility and cult of personality to increase. But then that's the trajectory of politics in general recently, so perhaps there's not much more to lose. Benefits would include the ability for voters to actually enact the legislation that they want, but which no legislators will choose to implement (e.g. anti-corruption/insider trading laws).
[edit: link is here: http://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&co...]