- Austin Mackell - Currently Cairo. A divisible real time
mandate system for representative democracy. REAL TIME VOTING is
a system based around transforming the vote from a single use
token issued every 4 years into a permanent possession of the
voter – something that is lent (in part or full) to a
representative the voter trusts to defend their interests and
which can be withdrawn without notice. It would be an online
voting system in which each voter would have a personal
homepage. Here would be the voters “pot”. Upon the first log in,
this pot would contain their entire vote. They would then be
able to break this vote into portions of whatever size they
liked, called tokens, and proceed to distribute them to
representatives. A voter could, for example, give a third of
their vote to a candidate who shared their economic views,
another third to one with a position on the environment they
shared, a sixth to a candidate advocating for a persecuted
minority, and the final sixth to a candidate advocating for th