Ask Slashdot: We've Had Online Voting; Why Not Continuous Voting? (iamnotanumber.org)

periegetes writes: This idea has been bugging me for a while. It takes months to organize a physical election, and several days to count the results, so it makes sense that we don't organize elections every day. However, with the computing resources at our disposal, it would be child's play to setup a site where every citizen could vote for (or against) proposed laws themselves, and could even change their vote at all times, cutting out the middle man and restoring true democracy to the world. That last part may be a stretch, but I, for one, would feel more involved in my government if I didn't have to watch it screw up for years before getting another say in it. I've found precious few articles discussing the matter, which usually means I'm missing an obvious problem. Why, in the age of Big Data and petaflops, don't we consider continuous voting?

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Re:SIgh

[Anonymous Coward]

You dumb, stupid fucker.

There never was a "true democracy" in the US. Ours was a Republic from the get go.

I don't know what's worse, some fucking moron who doesn't know the difference or the other fucking moron who thinks a true democracy is just dandy,