[pp.int.general] Agora Voting System for a Liquid Democracy at FOSDEM

[Eduardo Robles Elvira]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org> wrote:
>    Our aim is to use Electronic Voting for all the votings held in the
>    parliament.
>
> Votes in parliament are not anonymous, so the usual fundamental
> problems of digital voting do not arise.

Hello Richard:

Well the idea is that the elected members of parliament act as a proxy
for the people voting via Internet. For example, let's say PDI has 3
members in the parliament and there's a voting about the Sinde-Biden
law. If via Internet 62% say YES and 38% NO, then 2 of the MEPs would
vote YEs and one NO. This means you need to change no law as it is
strictly just the way the political party decides the vote. Read more
about it in PDI webpage [1] if you are interested.

What about a system for new propossals to be voted on the parliament?
Well, at least in Spain we need 15 MEPs for that so that's not a
problem just yet. But I have my ideas about how this could work too
[2].

Regards,
   Eduardo.
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Note: I know the links I just gave are in spanish, but I also happen
to know that RMS knows spanish =)
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[1] http://www.partidodeinternet.es
[2] http://partidodeinternet.es/foro/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=648&p=3764