So long as each digital entity can only use one vote on a matter, and if it is a non-trivial matter to log in an out, and if it is an absolute requirement that any voting entity's activity on the (whichever) policy-development site (reasonably) proves that the entity has read and considered the issue being voted on, then any significant level of multiple voting should be avoided.
Anyway, this is off-topic, so that should enough of the matter in this group. (Any further comments to somewhere else.) Regards, Ian Green Direct Democracy Forum http://www.ao.com.au/ddf/ PS: Has anyone considered that a well designed, voluntary, constitutional direct democracy system would logically result in a reduction of legislation much greater than 10dB? Professional legislators justify their existence by bombarding us with legislation so that they can pretend to be doing useful work! Direct democracy (as with the IETF and Open Source development community way of doing things) should be a step in the right direction. At 05:06 PM 10/08/2002 -0400, "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <SNIP> >Go look up discussions on google about cryptographic protocols for >internet voting. It just ain't possible without the most strict, >obscene, biometric, draconian, "is a person", non-anonymous methods >you ever saw. Lions, tigers, and precious bodily fluids, boys and >girls. <SNIP> >The point to democracy, in the industrial/agricultural political >sense, is one man, one vote. One *anonymous* vote. On the net, >paradoxically, that is completely impossible. Votes can be sold. If >you fix it so that you can't sell votes without forgoing your >identity -- and thus your freedom -- and physically showing up >somewhere to vote, or at least proving that you have a device that >identifies you as a voter in the most immediate terms possible, you >can sell your vote, anonymously, on the net, for whatever the market >will bear, and *that* person can *re*sell your vote, and so on, just >like it was voting rights to a share of stock. <SNIP> --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
