Inside a Failed Silicon Valley Attempt to Reinvent Politics

Re:Inside a Failed Silicon Valley Attempt to Reinvent Politics by AnimalMuppet on Thursday September 20, 2018 @12:55PM (#18033860)

I could even argue that lower turnout leads to better governance.

If you don't care enough to pay attention, if you don't care enough to investigate the candidates, then I'd prefer that you also don't care enough to go vote. If you do go vote, you (you the hypothetical uninformed voter, not you, my reader) are going to vote for the candidate that had the most ads. I don't want elections being decided by voters who are making decisions that way.

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Re:Inside a Failed Silicon Valley Attempt to Reinvent Politics by DoreenMichele on Thursday September 20, 2018 @01:00PM (#18033902)

Thank you for saying that.

I have only managed to vote twice in my life, in part because I don't want to pick a name at random and have been rather overwhelmed by events, yet I have had people give me a hard time about that, like it's my fault if bad candidates got elected because I didn't bother to pick a name at random.

And it always infuriates me to be told that I should vote anyway, even if it is random name picking.

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