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Re: [OPE] Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela internal ballot.

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Alejandro Agafonow wrote:

I think that participation can be increased and this technology might help, but representation is unavoidable.


That is true, there is only a small number of decisions that can be subject to referendums each year. But there is an important difference when the "representatives" are drawn by lot. Instead of representing voters they are statistically representatives of interests held by the citizenry.

//Dave Z
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