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Daniel: Basically, all it does is remove the
barriers that we put in place for the scalability
issues. The current representative system of
democracy says we can only vote every four
years, and we can only vote on certain poli-
tical parties that collect enough momentum.
In my country, it’s 5% of the voter base that
you have to collect in order to be able to
represent, voting is every four years, and
only a few people can actually make it into
the candidate set.
So, the candidate set is very, very limited.
When we get to the voting booths, a lot of
people I talk with - I have a workshop in Hun-
gary where we talk about politics and what
can be improved and why people don’t like
politics - most of them feel that their ideal
candidate is not in the race.
Even if there was a person that they wo-
uld like to represent them, they don’t find it
among those few elected officials.
What liquid democracy says is, forget about
those constraints that were there for making
it more scalable and easy for you, you can
actually vote on anything that you want.
Imagine a referendum in
which every
individual in
your community - that can be a
country or just a group - has
the right to cast a direct vote
on that specific issue.
Now, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you
want to because there are so many issues,
the larger the community the more issues
you will have.
But, even if you don’t want to cast a direct
vote, you have the full freedom to pass on
that vote to anyone you want.
VoB: Can you explain how it works?