On 5/5/2015 5:34 PM, LizR wrote:
On 5 May 2015 at 11:12, meekerdb <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Where does the money go once it's bought votes?
It's redistributed. So after the Koch brothers spend $889,000,000 in the
next
election to cast 29,816 votes, each of the 129 million voters will get back
$6.88
(plus the $1 they put in plus a share of whatever other big spenders put in).
Actually I think the Bros will be better off buying attack ads with their billion.
Ah, I see. Since the various interest groups already spend millions on spreading their
views via various media, presumably one caveat with QV would be that any form of
political advertising or support for parties or editorialising "outside" the system
would be illegal, and heavily penailsed if it occurred - otherwise the current system is
far more efficient from the viewpoint of the 1%, and they will just stick with using
their newspapers and TV channels to support their chosen candidates.
I think you're right that such a restriction would be needed; but I don't know whether
it's actually proposed that way. I've never studied voting systems much beyond Arrow's
theorem, but I know a mathematician who's writing a book about various systems. He's not
impressed by quadratic voting:
http://rangevoting.org/MonetizedRV.html
Brent
Or am I missing the point?
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