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Liquid Democracy. > Voters can either vote directly or delegate their vote to other participants; voters may also select different delegates for different issu
by filoeleven 6y ago
Liquid Democracy.
> Voters can either vote directly or delegate their vote to other participants; voters may also select different delegates for different issues. In other words, individual A of a society can delegate their power to another individual B – and withdraw such power again at any time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy
- adjkant 6y agoThanks for sharing this, this sounds like a great combination solution I've never heard of!
- nl 6y agoThe obvious issue with liquid democracy is vote buying. There are various proposals to fix this (from banning to "what's the problem?") but nothing that seems to address the issue that it's really easy to corrupt.
- kuang_eleven 6y agoThere are quite a few permutations on liquid democracy, some of which stake out different points on openness vs. susceptibility to vote buying. For example, you could have only people who have delegates have open votes, while those that don't have anyone delegated to them can vote or delegate secretly. This isn't much worse than our current delegative system, which admittedly does have an issue with vote-buying!