"our roles and interactions with government. I realized that not much has changed despite the surge of Internet users over the last decade." --> a variety of in

"our roles and interactions with government. I realized that not much has changed despite the surge of Internet users over the last decade." --> a variety of inefficiencies that will be corrected one of these days...maybe by a number of us? " Decisions are not made with the best interest of constituents in mind. " think about the polling systems that are still in place. they call up landlines -- LANDLINES! the only people that are being sampled are our grandparents... "And despite services like Facebook and Twitter many of us feel like we don't have a voice. " government hasn't exactly integrated social software/services. one of these days... "So my question to the smartest people in the room is, how can this be better? " i think one of the biggest issues is the epidemic of groupthink/influence that is plastered all over politics. if opinions were submitted behind an anonymous software, i think a lot of the problems would be mitigated. we've actually got the chief of staff for the majority WHIP in GA approaching his government friends about leveraging our ranking software to address many of the issues you mentioned. happy to speak more about it with you outside of HN as we're just beginning to explore the space & the potential impact. -adam