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This would probably be a different person if
it’s an economic issue, or a different person
if it’s an energy efficiency issue, or an animal
rights issue, as there are so many complex
issues it’s unimaginable that I should pick
one person who will decide for me in all these
different areas.
So from the three candidates, I’m supposed
to find the one that thinks exactly how I want
However, there is an important
issue we must consider:
When you look at what the result
is, and your delegate is not
doing what you want, you can
reverse the vote on this specific
issue.
him to think on all these issues?! At that point, you could decide that you just
The limitations are too strict, which makes it override them on this specific issue or, you can
impossible for me to pick someone who can say you are so disappointed with his decision
really represent me. that you change your delegate altogether.
In liquid democracy, I can delegate my vote If we remove these constraints, what happens
in many different areas. For example, I dele- is that all of the problems that the political
gate my decision on foreign policy to a certain system has disappear, that the problem many
person, it can be my relative, my nephew, or people feel such as, promises being made
a guy who lives in my building. but not followed up on over the next four
Why? years.
Trust. That’s also what I heard in the workshop. So,
I know he’s smart and he studied a lot in this none of this would happen because, if they
area, and he might delegate this further to forget their promises, immediately that
someone else. delegation is being given to someone else.
He might know someone in the university
that he trusts, who is more knowledgeable. It gives incentives for politicians to actually
So, my vote flows through these links to so- do what the delegation was meant to. Also,
meone I trust, to someone he trusts, and at the other problems of corruption would di-
the end someone casts the direct vote. In sappear because, in this system, you would
case I don’t like what they are doing with my still have full control and would create a more
vote I have the option at any time, even after peaceful world.
the vote, to pull back the delegation. Often, between election cycles, people are
In this system, if you see that your vote is frustrated that the only option they have is
delegated to someone and the voting time is to go to the street and set cars on fire (this
closed, you can see where your vote went. happens in my country).
Maybe, you have been delegating to a cer-
tain politician that you liked since years and
then, you see he is casting your vote on so-
mething that you don’t like, you still have the
chance to change it.
In the traditional system, this doesn’t hap-
pen. In the new system, you don’t have to
look at each and every individual issue, and
it’s a convenience.
So, imagine that it’s not your only option.
If you are so dissatisfied
that you go out and set cars
on fire, instead you can go
and simply take back your
delegation and your anger
would disappear.