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Brett Morrison | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 A functioning democracy is one where everyone eligible to vote does vote, and every vote is counted perfectly. We don't have that now, so we're building it at TrueVote.

Critics who don't want to have transparent, accurate elections have no defensible position.
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medici | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I take myself to be more of a skeptic than a critic regarding democracy.  I agree that some measure of the expression of the people’s ‘will’ seems necessary to satisfy the definition of democracy.  Perhaps that could be done by vote, but I reject the assumptions necessary to synthesize a totality of votes into an expression of the people’s will.  

I am all in with the transparent technologies that allow for communities of like minded people to emerge through the exchange of ideas. The technology you are building may have some value in the communities that accept that technology.  In those communities where it is imposed, I will always have doubt. 

Thus I am here, on nostr.