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The main question to ask would be, is this system scalable to larger more diverse populations. Iceland is tiny (approx. 250K i think).

Joakal 15y ago
In Australia for Federal election, there's a 'ticket' for electing senators. In NSW, there's over 150 candidates. The way to vote is in two ways; 1) Must accurately vote for each candidate in a numeric incremental fashion. One mistake = invalid vote. 2) Or pick just one party. There's 15 parties. With 2) If you pick a party, you voted for that particular party preferences where the party pre-filled the preferences for all 150 candidates for you. That is very scalable until there's 150 parties. Or maybe 1500 parties. I believe eventually that the government will be forced to provide a 'policy platform' department where the voter gets to 'vote' where their concerns are, eg do you support granting prisoners right to vote (Yes/No or Strongly/Disagree) and the output is the party most closely aligned. Then the onus is on the parties to submit all the relevant positions to the policy platform department. I tried to create this platform [0] and closed it, code is available for others. I think I'll add it to Github soon actually! I don't believe the platform will happen for a long time as parties complain that they can't fulfill all their promises while the voters believe that the parties will fulfill their promises. Leading some to rage when politicians call them 'non-core promises' [1]. Also, some parties treat election policies as trade secrets.. seriously. They won't reveal them until election time because gasp, the current government might implement them immediately. [0] http://joakal.com/topic/shockseat/ http://joakal.com/topic/shockseat/ [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=non-core%20promise&defid=1485810 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=non-core%20pr...

Joakal 15y ago

In Australia for Federal election, there's a 'ticket' for electing senators. In NSW, there's over 150 candidates. The way to vote is in two ways; 1) Must accurately vote for each candidate in a numeric incremental fashion. One mistake = invalid vote. 2) Or pick just one party. There's 15 parties. With 2) If you pick a party, you voted for that particular party preferences where the party pre-filled the preferences for all 150 candidates for you. That is very scalable until there's 150 parties. Or maybe 1500 parties. I believe eventually that the government will be forced to provide a 'policy platform' department where the voter gets to 'vote' where their concerns are, eg do you support granting prisoners right to vote (Yes/No or Strongly/Disagree) and the output is the party most closely aligned. Then the onus is on the parties to submit all the relevant positions to the policy platform department. I tried to create this platform [0] and closed it, code is available for others. I think I'll add it to Github soon actually! I don't believe the platform will happen for a long time as parties complain that they can't fulfill all their promises while the voters believe that the parties will fulfill their promises. Leading some to rage when politicians call them 'non-core promises' [1]. Also, some parties treat election policies as trade secrets.. seriously. They won't reveal them until election time because gasp, the current government might implement them immediately. [0] http://joakal.com/topic/shockseat/ http://joakal.com/topic/shockseat/ [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=non-core%20promise&defid=1485810 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=non-core%20pr...