Voting is very broken. You only do it once a year, for candidates with 2,4,6-year terms. Even if the voting machines aren't hacked the political machines are: i

Voting is very broken. You only do it once a year, for candidates with 2,4,6-year terms. Even if the voting machines aren't hacked the political machines are: it's expensive to run, and tons of interest groups have to be appeased. Social media is quickly becoming a powerful parapolitical means for distributing resources, but it's also broken. It's subject to balkanization, waves of outrage and other attention span-related problems, and authentication is hard. Figuring out how to improve democratic resource management for even small (<10k pop) communities would be an interesting problem.