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

[Rodrigo dA]

i like the idea of direct democracy :D

> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:53:53 +0100
> From: tourovski at gmail.com
> To: pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] Agora Voting System for a Liquid Democracy at FOSDEM
> 
> Hi Kenneth,
> > In fact, most times the party makes the decision and all their MPs act
> > as dumb voting-robots, and it's really hard to get a really free vote in
> > our parliament. They name it "party discipline", and it's how it works
> > here, at least 99% of times.
> Unfortunately, it does work exactly the same way in Germany,
> Constitution notwithstanding, and you can't legally do anything against
> it as of course there is no immediate punishment for someone who votes
> out of line - it's just that he or she will probably find themselves at
> the very bottom of their party list at the next elections... So the
> ruling has more of a symbolic nature, but for me it's a symbol which
> should be upheld, not deliberately destroyed.
> I think we'll be having a couple of nice fights in the German PP when we
> finally get seats in Parliament as to whether we should adhere more to
> the constitution&notion of "free vote" or to our promise to represent
> the people as closely as possible:)
> 
> Best regards,
> Boris
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