Re:Debian decides to allow secret votes
by mariusor on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @03:23AM
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> It's a place to vent, not to decide
When the ballot process can be done in the morning with your coffee and toast, maybe more people would be inclined to apply judgement and vote in good faith.
And I think I speak a truism when I say that more deciding power for each citizen is a better kind of democracy than representative democracy. What I'm hearing from you are just hypotheticals that nobody can be sure of without actually trying a system like this. Basically that's all I'm saying, the current democratic process leaves a lot of citizens without proper representation and probably we need to move in a direction where that's not true any more. We need to look at alternative ballot systems which would allow that. If the current political strata are wrecked in the process, all the better.
When the ballot process can be done in the morning with your coffee and toast, maybe more people would be inclined to apply judgement and vote in good faith.
And I think I speak a truism when I say that more deciding power for each citizen is a better kind of democracy than representative democracy. What I'm hearing from you are just hypotheticals that nobody can be sure of without actually trying a system like this. Basically that's all I'm saying, the current democratic process leaves a lot of citizens without proper representation and probably we need to move in a direction where that's not true any more. We need to look at alternative ballot systems which would allow that. If the current political strata are wrecked in the process, all the better.