schuyler1d
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7 years ago closing for now -- still in active development, but I should only host one working group at a time!
Closed schuyler1d closed 7 years ago
schuyler1d
commented
7 years ago closing for now -- still in active development, but I should only host one working group at a time!
About the group
Polling and voting at most once-a-year is so 20th century. But how do we skirt the paradoxes of full democracy failing because "the people vote for high services and low taxes"? How do we make it easy to vote, but avoid the security problems of electronic voting?
Here's an idea: People vote by SMS (with registered-but-anonymized phones) in a secure way on sponsored bills. Then every X months, the most voted bill is forced to be voted on by the legislature. Yes, this would require law changes, but #democracy!
I have some (mostly) working code, and the structure, but let's game it out and see if we can change things. NYC might be a great place to experiment with this.
Group leader/s
Schuyler Duveen (@sky_moveon on slack)
Who we're looking for
Tools
Django, Speck, Twilio
Relevant Links
https://github.com/schuyler1d/kjosa http://council.nyc.gov/pb/ (for "prior art")
Where we meet
wherever we can find -- bring your laptop.