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Re:“A Horrifically Bad Idea”: Smartphone Voting Is Coming by twtw on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @10:34AM (#18399761)
I don't see how "the whole [assembling] to make laws" is any more possible now than in the 1700s. Are you thinking drafting laws by wiki, or what?
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Re:“A Horrifically Bad Idea”: Smartphone Voting Is Coming by wu-ikkyu on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @07:08PM (#18403397)
>I don't see how "the whole [assembling] to make laws" is any more possible now than in the 1700s

They didn't have instanteous global omnipresence that we have today.

We didn't have to travel vast physical distances to do what we are doing right now with eachother.

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