I'd love to hear people's thoughts on this idea... Problem statement: modern society creates too many choices for voters. Many (most?) people don't even know the name of the candidates they vote for each election, and/or cannot possibly have enough information about the candidate choices to make an informed decision. This goes doubly true for referendum votes e.g. some specific area of law or government that people are asked to vote on. How many people know who is the best candidate for their local... water system commissioner? Probably very few. Many don't even know the name of their local federal House member (but they know the name of the presidential candidates, and/or the names and issues that impacts their area of expertise, work, hobby, etc.). Today's elections give every citizen the same ballot, and everybody, regardless of their knowledge or interest, must vote on every candidate and every decision even when they don't have the first clue about what they are voting on. This also leads to "party line voting" because people know a party and not a candidate, which is bad. I think this is a flaw in democracy, and with technology we can fix it. My proposal is to give every citizens a limited number of "voting tokens", say 1,000 tokens per calendar year. (You could implement this with any sort of tokenization system e.g. a digital currency). Then when they vote, they can "spend" their tokens using any combination of candidates/decisions they wish. The winner of the election is the one with the most tokens. This way, citizens only vote on what they know about and/or care about, and they will not vote on things they don't know/care about. I think this would vastly improve our democracy. What do you think?
I'd love to hear people's thoughts on this idea... Problem statement: modern society creates too many choices for voters. Many (most?) people don't even know the name of the candidates they vote for each election, and/or cannot possibly have enough information about the candidate choices to make an informed decision. This goes doubly true for referendum votes e.g. some specific area of law or government that people are asked to vote on. How many people know who is the best candidate for their local... water system commissioner? Probably very few. Many don't even know the name of their local federal House member (but they know the name of the presidential candidates, and/or the names and issues that impacts their area of expertise, work, hobby, etc.). Today's elections give every citizen the same ballot, and everybody, regardless of their knowledge or interest, must vote on every candidate and every decision even when they don't have the first clue about what they are voting on. This also leads to "party line voting" because people know a party and not a candidate, which is bad. I think this is a flaw in democracy, and with technology we can fix it. My proposal is to give every citizens a limited number of "voting tokens", say 1,000 tokens per calendar year. (You could implement this with any sort of tokenization system e.g. a digital currency). Then when they vote, they can "spend" their tokens using any combination of candidates/decisions they wish. The winner of the election is the one with the most tokens. This way, citizens only vote on what they know about and/or care about, and they will not vote on things they don't know/care about. I think this would vastly improve our democracy. What do you think?

I'd love to hear people's thoughts on this idea... Problem statement: modern society creates too many choices for voters. Many (most?) people don't even know the name of the candidates they vote for each election, and/or cannot possibly have enough information about the candidate choices to make an informed decision. This goes doubly true for referendum votes e.g. some specific area of law or government that people are asked to vote on. How many people know who is the best candidate for their local... water system commissioner? Probably very few. Many don't even know the name of their local federal House member (but they know the name of the presidential candidates, and/or the names and issues that impacts their area of expertise, work, hobby, etc.). Today's elections give every citizen the same ballot, and everybody, regardless of their knowledge or interest, must vote on every candidate and every decision even when they don't have the first clue about what they are voting on. This also leads to "party line voting" because people know a party and not a candidate, which is bad. I think this is a flaw in democracy, and with technology we can fix it. My proposal is to give every citizens a limited number of "voting tokens", say 1,000 tokens per calendar year. (You could implement this with any sort of tokenization system e.g. a digital currency). Then when they vote, they can "spend" their tokens using any combination of candidates/decisions they wish. The winner of the election is the one with the most tokens. This way, citizens only vote on what they know about and/or care about, and they will not vote on things they don't know/care about. I think this would vastly improve our democracy. What do you think?

I'd love to hear people's thoughts on this idea... Problem statement: modern society creates too many choices for voters. Many (most?) people don't even know the name of the candidates they vote for each election, and/or cannot possibly have enough information about the candidate choices to make an informed decision. This goes doubly true for referendum votes e.g. some specific area of law or government that people are asked to vote on. How many people know who is the best candidate for their local... water system commissioner? Probably very few. Many don't even know the name of their local federal House member (but they know the name of the presidential candidates, and/or the names and issues that impacts their area of expertise, work, hobby, etc.). Today's elections give every citizen the same ballot, and everybody, regardless of their knowledge or interest, must vote on every candidate and every decision even when they don't have the first clue about what they are voting on. This also leads to "party line voting" because people know a party and not a candidate, which is bad. I think this is a flaw in democracy, and with technology we can fix it. My proposal is to give every citizens a limited number of "voting tokens", say 1,000 tokens per calendar year. (You could implement this with any sort of tokenization system e.g. a digital currency). Then when they vote, they can "spend" their tokens using any combination of candidates/decisions they wish. The winner of the election is the one with the most tokens. This way, citizens only vote on what they know about and/or care about, and they will not vote on things they don't know/care about. I think this would vastly improve our democracy. What do you think?