Re: [OPE] Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela internal ballot.

From: Dave Zachariah (davez@kth.se)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2008 - 08:56:59 EDT


Alejandro Agafonow wrote:
>
> I think that participation can be increased and this technology might 
> help, but representation is unavoidable.
>

That is true, there is only a small number of decisions that can be 
subject to referendums each year. But there is an important difference 
when the "representatives" are drawn by lot. Instead of representing 
voters they are statistically representatives of interests held by the 
citizenry.

//Dave Z
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