When I lived in Atlanta, every four years when the mayoral election came around you could depend on there being an undergrad at Georgia Tech who would run on a

When I lived in Atlanta, every four years when the mayoral election came around you could depend on there being an undergrad at Georgia Tech who would run on a platform of using the internet (and later a mobile app) to enable direct democracy. Each time they were sure they were the first to come up with the idea. It's significant that four years not only is the length of the election cycle but also the time it takes to earn an undergraduate degree so each cycle had a new crop of students who weren't around for the last election. I wonder if this will be the next evolution of that phenomenon. Just as it evolved from dial up voting to web voting to mobile app voting, will the next thing for Tech students to push for be AI voting? Perhaps voting for an AI to be mayor or having your own AI vote for you. Or a "direct" democracy where your AI votes on each issue throughout the term.