A structural fault in society owing to a design flaw in the electoral system

[Michael Allan]

Welcome back Alex!  It's been a while since you last posted.  I hope
life's been treating you well.

> I am out in the field doing social research now building interest in
> direct democratic decision making and almost soleley through social
> contracts. ... My current question is "will further social
> production require the same solution (Vototola) or will I find
> untreated and/incompatible use cases and requirements?"

I guess Votorola can never be more than part of the overall technical
solution.  I think a complete solution will always require multiple
projects (the more the better).  Did you have a particular use case in
mind that might be difficult for us to cover?  What sort of contacts
have you made?

Myself, I'm angling for contacts too; most recently here:
http://www.nycga.net/groups/political-and-electoral-reform/forum/topic/outcast/

Mike


Alex Rollin wrote:
> What I hear in the initial "there is a flaw" statement is a noticing  
> that parties are poor mediators and that the people ought to be more  
> directly involved in creating the ballot, that this "other" unmediated/ 
> less-mediated method is likely to restore "power" and interest in  
> Democracy by simply removing a structural, systemic component of  
> decision making that can result in tye procedural alienation of a  
> person from the process and eventually their vote.
> 
> I have previously experienced a similar insight during US primaries  
> and I found the feeling of alienation, akin to what was described  
> here, sufficiently powerful to rationalize my own dropping out until  
> such a time as I could find a solution.
> 
> My understanding of the drive behind Votorola and from what I have  
> seen of the workings, most of which I have tested and viewed myself,  
> is that Votorola does accomplish much disinternediation with a   
> technical solution and that the group working on Votorola, and I  
> consider myself a member of that group or at least in league with, is  
> very interested in the production of the technical solution with a  
> full acknowledgement and in the shining light of truth that the  
> technical solution for a constantly open and changeable ballot with a  
> never closing poll is in fact only a technical solution and therefore  
> only a partial solution.
> 
> Indeed I found Votorola technically sufficient even with the (current)  
> lack of pollwiki replication.  I am out in the field doing social  
> research now building interest in direct democratic decision making  
> and almost soleley through social contracts.  Votorola answered my  
> original question "can the issue I have previously encountered, a lack  
> of a technical solution, be solved".  My current question is "will  
> further social production require the same solution (Vototola) or will  
> I find untreated and/incompatible use cases and requirements?"
> 
> Bests,
> 
> Alex Rollin
> Http://commoning.com