Re:Tim O'Reilly on Open Government
by pjungwir on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @04:55PM
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I think you're right about elections being too small, both from a business perspective and from an impact perspective. The problem we were trying to solve was that people vote blindly for most lower-ballot positions. We wanted to make it easy to vote intelligently all the way down your ballot, without researching each candidate individually. I guess it's understandable we couldn't find a way to support a business doing that.
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I wonder if it might be preferable to make it easier to put things on the ballot instead. You could look into the process for that and see if there's a way to humanize it or make it more transparent.
I can't think of a way to business model that, though. Maybe a Kickstarter deal where people vote for inclusion via pledges and you take a cut? That doesn't sound like a great idea. Dunno.