Proxy-Based Voting System

See the Youtube Video: 6 Proxy Based Democracy

Concept

• It is a computer system designed to allow organizations or groups of people such as a corporation to run itself via a form of direct democracy. 
• Each member of an organization gets 1 unit of voting power within that organization.
• Each member can bequeath their voting unit one or more personal representatives (their proxies), thus giving their proxies more voting power.
• When a person votes, they vote with the sum of their own voting power and the power of they represent by proxy.
• In the system, resolutions can be submitted, and members can vote for or against them. 
  • If Paul has delegated his vote to 2 proxies, and each votes yes on a resolution, and Paul doesn’t personally cast a vote, then via his proxies, he is deemed to have voted for the resolution. 
  • If one of Paul’s representatives votes for and the other against, then Paul’s vote will have effectively been cancelled out, as if he had abstained.
  • Paul can break the deadlock by personally casting a vote. If he does so, then for the purposes of that resolution, Paul’s voting power will be withdrawn from all his representatives, since he has voted directly. 
  • If Paul has 3 representatives and one votes for and the other 2 against, and if Paul does not vote directly, then his vote will be tallied as ⅓ for and 2/3s against the resolution.
• Proxy power can build hierarchically as people with proxy power in turn select proxy representatives of their own. Thus at the top of the pyramid, political leaders, or individuals representing significant amounts of proxy power would emerge.

Notes

• Political leaders can gain or lose political power in real time. There is no longer any concept of a term of office or any need for formal elections.  In this sense, and in the sense that any individual can opt to participate as much or a little as they wish, by casting votes, or by letting their proxies do it for then, the proxy system can be considered an example of direct democracy.
• Different organization can have different rules for how resolutions are brought up, and how long they can remain active for voting. In order to pass, a resolution must reach the end of its open-window and have a minimum ratio of yes-votes tallied up (at least 50+1%)
• Generally speaking, resolutions should have several days or even weeks of open window time, so that resolutions have time to rise out of obscurity by accumulating yes-votes, debate can occur, individuals can see how their representatives have voted, and if they disagree, cast a ballot directly.
• Members can spread their voting power across as many representatives as they want. They gan grant or withdraw their support at any time for any reason. 
• People can see how much proxy power they have, but they can’t see who has given it to them. This makes it harder for people to be coersive.
• People always get to see how their immediate delegates voted, so they can ensure their delegates are representing them appropriately. 
• Because proxy power can be granted or withdrawn at any time, elections are not necessary
• Members can either directly participate, or can delegate their voting power to those they feel best represent them.
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