Voting is very broken. You only do it once a year, for candidates with 2,4,6-year terms. Even if the voting machines aren&#x27;t hacked the political machines are: it&#x27;s expensive to run, and tons of interest groups have to be appeased.<p>Social media is quickly becoming a powerful parapolitical means for distributing resources, but it&#x27;s also broken. It&#x27;s subject to balkanization, waves of outrage and other attention span-related problems, and authentication is hard.<p>Figuring out how to improve democratic resource management for even small (&lt;10k pop) communities would be an interesting problem.