“If the platform is created, how do you get people to use it the way you would like them to? People have views on far more than the things someone else thinks should concern them.”
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If people are weighted equally, ie if the influence of each person’s written ballot is equal and capped, then each person is incentivized to emphasize the things which actually affect them.
Anyone could express views on things which don’t affect them, it’d just be unwise. When you’re voting between candidates (as in status quo), those candidates attempt to educate and engage you about all the issues they stand for, even if they’re irrelevant to you. A system where your ballot is a written expression of what you care about suffers much less from this issue.
“If the platform is created, how do you get people to use it the way you would like them to? People have views on far more than the things someone else thinks should concern them.”
>
If people are weighted equally, ie if the influence of each person’s written ballot is equal and capped, then each person is incentivized to emphasize the things which actually affect them.
Anyone could express views on things which don’t affect them, it’d just be unwise. When you’re voting between candidates (as in status quo), those candidates attempt to educate and engage you about all the issues they stand for, even if they’re irrelevant to you. A system where your ballot is a written expression of what you care about suffers much less from this issue.