A solution to an electronic democracy can be found through other techniques expounded upon. For example, the big problem with everyone having an equal say is that less intelligent and/or less informed people have an equal amount of say as those who are opposite of that. (Before I continue, I would lack to add that I do not necessarily agree with pre-birth genetic engineering). Through the notion that babies, while still in the womb, can be genetically manipulated, the so-called "dumb, ignorant, complacent" people can be nullified. Hell, for all I know, a certain inclination to care could be hard-wired in (I don't know that much about genetic-engineering). Even further, a certain error-checking to voting on topics can be added. For example (and this is just one exmaple -- I am sure there are more), a small series of questions can be asked before the person is allowed to vote on the issue. Then, a certain weight is added to that person's vote depending on how many questions were answered correctly. Even if the voter cheats and researches the answers to the questions, he or she suddenly becomes an informed voter. Also, I like to think that there are more informed people than ingnorant -- no matter how many times society proves me wrong. A hopeless optimist.
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A solution to an electronic democracy can be found through other techniques expounded upon. For example, the big problem with everyone having an equal say is that less intelligent and/or less informed people have an equal amount of say as those who are opposite of that. (Before I continue, I would lack to add that I do not necessarily agree with pre-birth genetic engineering). Through the notion that babies, while still in the womb, can be genetically manipulated, the so-called "dumb, ignorant, complacent" people can be nullified. Hell, for all I know, a certain inclination to care could be hard-wired in (I don't know that much about genetic-engineering).
Even further, a certain error-checking to voting on topics can be added. For example (and this is just one exmaple -- I am sure there are more), a small series of questions can be asked before the person is allowed to vote on the issue. Then, a certain weight is added to that person's vote depending on how many questions were answered correctly. Even if the voter cheats and researches the answers to the questions, he or she suddenly becomes an informed voter.
Also, I like to think that there are more informed people than ingnorant -- no matter how many times society proves me wrong. A hopeless optimist.