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People are working on this. See for instance Aktiv Demokrati in Sweden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktiv_Demokrati http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktiv_Demokrat

People are working on this. See for instance Aktiv Demokrati in Sweden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktiv_Demokrati http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktiv_Demokrati The basic idea is that each person has a vote, and all matters should be resolved by a public vote. Since not everybody may have time and resources to vote responsibly in every matter, the vote can be delegated to someone else. It is easy to imagine how every person could delegate his or her vote to different people in different matters. Going down this road, sometime you have to consider the question of actual motions and matters to vote upon. Who drafts these? Well, it should be the people who suggests questions to vote upon, and the people who decides which questions are most important -- by voting on them. Then, the people should discuss the matter. Each person can voice their opinion, but also vote on the opinions of others. After a good discussion, with many arguments back and forth, it is time to vote. But, alas! The matter has already been resolved. The most popular arguments have surfaced to the top, with the corresponding caveats and so on. This discussion is the perfect basis for drafting whatever law or resolving whatever matter was under question. Now, this all sounds very similar to Reddit, or Hacker News. Basically, this is how the political process would work. Note that not all of what I have discussed here is a part of Aktiv Demokrati or their system. It's more of a summary of my own thoughts on the matter.

shawn-furyan 13y ago
I'm having trouble imagining how the delegation mechanism works unless it's just incredibly broad[1]. To wit, how do I delegate my 2024 vote on whether or not to allow unaglisivation[2] to be legal or not? Political issues are emergent phenomena, and that would seem to be a problem with such a delegation system. It seems like it might be better to just mandate voting, or tie it to some basket of broadly sought after government gated entitlements, such as driver's licenses, etc. so as to make it generally more inconvenient not to vote than to vote[3]. [1]Obviously "incredibly broad" is not going to be very broad in relation to the current US vote delegation system which is pretty much "delegate all of my decisions to X", but if you're talking about creating a brand new system harnessing the power of information systems that didn't exist in the late 1700s, there's not much reason to constrain yourself to comparisons with such an archaic system. [2]This is a made up term [3]Though in such a coercive voting system, I think you would have to randomize option placement and offer a "no opinion" option for every issue so as not to unduly skew the results by the people who really do not want to vote, or don't feel well enough informed on a particular issue. [edit to add footnote [1] and for clarity]
- yesbabyyes 13y ago
  Sorry for the late reply. I'm not quite sure I get your point, but I think it stems from a misunderstanding about the delegation. In my mind, this is very fluctuating. Let's say all questions are divided among departments, similar to today. Now, perhaps I I have delegated my vote on all questions of agriculture (which obviously unaglisivation falls under) to you. This means that you carry my vote, until I either remove my support from you henceforth, or I vote differently in a particular matter. So, I have simply delegated all matters of agriculture to you on auto-pilot, but I can change that whenever I want -- including during a vote (which in this system must take some time, perhaps on the order of weeks, or indeed indefinitely, until a matter is resolved). The system is inspired a little bit by the great John Byrne story "The Trial of Reed Richards".

shawn-furyan 13y ago

I'm having trouble imagining how the delegation mechanism works unless it's just incredibly broad[1]. To wit, how do I delegate my 2024 vote on whether or not to allow unaglisivation[2] to be legal or not? Political issues are emergent phenomena, and that would seem to be a problem with such a delegation system. It seems like it might be better to just mandate voting, or tie it to some basket of broadly sought after government gated entitlements, such as driver's licenses, etc. so as to make it generally more inconvenient not to vote than to vote[3]. [1]Obviously "incredibly broad" is not going to be very broad in relation to the current US vote delegation system which is pretty much "delegate all of my decisions to X", but if you're talking about creating a brand new system harnessing the power of information systems that didn't exist in the late 1700s, there's not much reason to constrain yourself to comparisons with such an archaic system. [2]This is a made up term [3]Though in such a coercive voting system, I think you would have to randomize option placement and offer a "no opinion" option for every issue so as not to unduly skew the results by the people who really do not want to vote, or don't feel well enough informed on a particular issue. [edit to add footnote [1] and for clarity]

yesbabyyes 13y ago
Sorry for the late reply. I'm not quite sure I get your point, but I think it stems from a misunderstanding about the delegation. In my mind, this is very fluctuating. Let's say all questions are divided among departments, similar to today. Now, perhaps I I have delegated my vote on all questions of agriculture (which obviously unaglisivation falls under) to you. This means that you carry my vote, until I either remove my support from you henceforth, or I vote differently in a particular matter. So, I have simply delegated all matters of agriculture to you on auto-pilot, but I can change that whenever I want -- including during a vote (which in this system must take some time, perhaps on the order of weeks, or indeed indefinitely, until a matter is resolved). The system is inspired a little bit by the great John Byrne story "The Trial of Reed Richards".