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With so many places in the world with flawed democracy by first past the post, it seems like voting is more or less irrelevant. The first thing that the digita
by f38zf5vdt 5y ago
With so many places in the world with flawed democracy by first past the post, it seems like voting is more or less irrelevant.
The first thing that the digital revolution should have fixed was our variously flawed democratic systems. It might be the last thing.
- dane-pgp 5y agoRather than fixing our democratic systems, the digital revolution may have just made them worse, by encouraging societies to entrust the counting of ballots to machines, and then unsurprisingly stop trusting those machines as soon as they give an answer that half the population don't like. Even in societies that still rely on analogue vote counting, it is unclear whether instant access to digital information has made societies more informed or misinformed on average.