"But who decides who's interested? :)" :) I imagine a system where "the party opinion" is set as a default and where possible delegates could be ex.: Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, Greenpeace, you, me etc. Issues would be ex.: energy, environment, defence, education, etc. Who is interested in the details is regulated by who is actually participating in the discussions, voting and then offering to be a delegate within the issue. A forum of this size needs limits. People cannot keep themselves informed by all details within. They have to open the forum and take a look themselves at the things they are interested in and delegate other issues to people and organizations they trust. Getting e-mails about every descision in all issues would be considered spam, unless you really prefer to manipulate everything through e-mail. They can however directly see in their voting account what happened with their mandate and what is about to happen and directly manipulate it if they wish. e-mail for voting is not to safe either. I guess some kind of system that the banks use would be more appropriate. Downloading certificates using, limited time codes and similar. <div>2008/2/29, /pd <<a href="mailto:slash.pd@gmail.com">slash.pd@gmail.com</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Michael I am out of the loop and need to bootstrap myself. I trolled in here from the TorCampers. Is this the same s/w that was dev'ed during the last startup camp ? </div> -- Peace vision -> More democracy -> How? -> <a href="http://www.aktivdemokrati.se">www.aktivdemokrati.se</a>