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Perhaps you should also add a link to this from other pages? --[[User:Araucaria|Araucaria]] 11:23, 29 Mar 2005 (PST)
Well, as a voter of the world, I read this page to understand the voting system. In the five minutes I have, I can't understand it. In fact, I can't understand it with quite a bit more time than that. So I don't vote... A modest suggestion: let the voters of the world choose the voting system! I doubt they would choose this one! When I first read this page, I saw something similar to proxy democracy; the voter is essentially assigning his or her vote to the vote list of the named candidate. As has been noted, it is also possible that non-candidate vote lists could be an option. This is quite similar to proxy voting, but with a fixed voting process for the proxies (which means that they are not actually proxies, for proxies would ordinarily participate in a subsequent deliberative process). But, the more I looked at the dramatized broadcast, the more confused I got. I end up not knowing what exactly was being proposed. Another suggestion: start a page called [[Democratic Fair Choice]] and describe the method there. For a true proxy voting process, see [[Delegable Proxy Election]]. In the latter, voters simply vote for proxies, who might indeed be candidates themselves, or who might be anyone else who has declared availability to so serve. Then the proxies carry out the election. (Delegable Proxy simply means that the proxies may assign their voting rights, obtained through the balloting process, to others.) The proxies become electors in an electoral college; but, unlike the present U.S. Electoral College, proxies are chosen, not elected. A proxy might only have one vote (which would mean that nobody else trusted the proxy, so the proxy only has his or her own vote to exercise in the subsequent process.) So what I imagined I saw for DFC was this kind of proxy election, but with preannounced votes (kind of like the present electors, who are pledged) and an election method by which those votes would be considered, such as IRV or some other variation. Then I read details that don't match that description. --[[User:Abd|Abd]]
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