Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use open source software

Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by luxuryballs on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:39AM (#33516505)

I think the only way to improve things is to have a representative based system. Local community picks a rep, sends them to a higher level meeting, all the chosen reps pick a rep from among them to send to the next level, repeat and scale the number of layers as needed. Then there’s no mystery because everyone at each level knows who they agreed to send to represent them.

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Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by squokko on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:54AM (#33516576)

This was how the US Constitution was designed by the smart people, before various idiots screwed it up with the 17th Amendment and Permanent Apportionment Act. Your US representative was supposed to represent about ~30,000 people and your state representatives even fewer than that. Now each representative represents close to a million.

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Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by kylebyproxy on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:44AM (#33517553)

So glad to see others calling-out the Permanent Apportionment Act. Maybe it made sense in a world without communications technology, but today we're able to scale to the numbers needed to support that ratio of representatives:constituents.

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Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by hawkesnest on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:00AM (#33518983)

Would the House be more or less effective if there were 10,000+ representatives to meet the 30,000:1 ratio in the original Constitutional setup?

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Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by squokko on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @12:08PM (#33521365)

More, because the House is not a deliberative body. Reps could stay in their districts and just vote online.

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Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by sfifs on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:43AM (#33519476)

The episode "Power To The People" in the satirical comedy Yes Prime Minister deals with exactly this. It also looks at the trade-offs, which explains why this will almost certainly not actually happen. Well worth a watch :-)

https://archive.org/details/yes-prime-minister-power-to-the-...

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