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All the more reason we need proportional representation and the ability to overrule Congress via referendum. The appearance of voter approval needs to be repla
by stretchwithme 12y ago
All the more reason we need proportional representation and the ability to overrule Congress via referendum.
The appearance of voter approval needs to be replaced with actual voter approval.
- nitrogen 12y agoAny referendum process needs to have a robust way of ensuring that the descriptions of the proposals are unbiased, truthful, and complete. It's easy to make it look like a referendum makes a situation better by using words like "sets" when "changes" is more correct, and by never mentioning the status quo, for example.
- stretchwithme 12y agoThe Swiss do it all the time and can vote directly on legislation already passed by the legislative body. It just takes a petition with enough signatures. Yes, people that are dummy can be deceived. There is no system that will ever prevent that. But even dumb people learn to not vote for things that they don't understand.