Thinking a little about a data model... an election can be looked at as a set of questions, on which people vote (generally yes/no, or multiple choice). There's no reason that Questions couldn't be proposed outside of an election, right? And an election is basically a set of questions with a constituency and a given deadline? Or is that too simplistic?
Any Question that gets put to a vote would sensibly have a place for arguments for and against, which could be buttressed by facts and supporting documentation. Today, we could think about links to articles, text posts, videos, and photos as all being types of supporting documentation. Any supporting documentation can be vetted by constituents by upvotes/downvotes/refutation. The range of types of questions that could be proposed may be far broader than what we're used to in regular elections.
Thinking a little about a data model... an election can be looked at as a set of questions, on which people vote (generally yes/no, or multiple choice). There's no reason that Questions couldn't be proposed outside of an election, right? And an election is basically a set of questions with a constituency and a given deadline? Or is that too simplistic?
Any Question that gets put to a vote would sensibly have a place for arguments for and against, which could be buttressed by facts and supporting documentation. Today, we could think about links to articles, text posts, videos, and photos as all being types of supporting documentation. Any supporting documentation can be vetted by constituents by upvotes/downvotes/refutation. The range of types of questions that could be proposed may be far broader than what we're used to in regular elections.