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This sounds like the Liquid Democracy system, which the Pirate Party of Germany uses to decide on party-internal policy questions. (Other organizations may have
by limmeau 15y ago
This sounds like the Liquid Democracy system, which the Pirate Party of Germany uses to decide on party-internal policy questions. (Other organizations may have had it before them, but they're the first I heard it of)
The major point of dispute there is that this system cannot be simultaneously anonymous (nobody knows whether I voted for or against nuclear weapons for public schools) and independently verifiable (anyone can check that everybody's delegations have been computed correctly).
- aamar 15y agoRight, and liquid democracy is really a specific application of proxy voting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_voting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_voting A startup working with this idea: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/8394883/Jolitics-Bebo-founders-political-social-network-launches.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/8394883/J...
- yesbabyyes 15y agoThanks limmeau, indeed it does sound exactly like Liquid Democracy. I have thought about the problem you raise and it is indeed a drawback.