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This drove me to just now sign up at: http://www.votizen.com http://www.votizen.com Their tagline is 'making your interests special interests.' Their investor
by riffer 16y ago
This drove me to just now sign up at:
http://www.votizen.com http://www.votizen.com
Their tagline is 'making your interests special interests.' Their investors include Founders Fund, Conway, Dixon, McClure, Rabois, etc. And they are pretty clear that what they're pursuing is an 'unmatched opportunity to change representative democracy' (i.e. aiming high).
- natrius 16y agoWow. I've been thinking about this concept for a while. It'll either be the best or the worst thing to happen to democracy. This sort of thing would make our representative democracy function as more of a direct democracy, which would feel nice, but it has plenty of drawbacks (cf. California).
- jessriedel 16y agoI'm interested, but their "about" page isn't detailed enough. What do they do? I guess they give you the contact info for your representatives and then provide verification for the representative that you are a voting constituent? What do they do to organize ("match") people?
- sachinag 16y agoFor now, yeah. It's an extension of how the Startup Visa movement used gov2. Elected officials and their offices really only want to hear from their constituents; if you make it easier for them to verify that feedback is coming from their constituents while you simultaneously make it easier for constituents to engage, then (theoretically) through the size of the crowds, you can drown out highly motivated special interests. (Of course, lobbyists are free to use Votizen and are the short-term potential advertisers on the platform.)