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What Happened in the 110th Congress?
Total number of bills introduced: 11059 (3724 in Senate, 7335 in House)
Originally posted by JaxCavalera
IF a piece of legislation does not receive over 75% of the total countries voting population's votes.. it would be put on hold
Originally posted by BULLPIN
reply to post by JaxCavalera
A techno-mobocracy huh? Carefull what you wish for...
Originally posted by alfa1
Although politicians have a long track record of making poor choices, I'm not convinced that the "popular vote", every single time, is a better method.
Also, by sheer numbers alone, the population simply dont have time to examine these things...
What Happened in the 110th Congress?
Total number of bills introduced: 11059 (3724 in Senate, 7335 in House)
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The only people who could have the time to vote would be those employed by large corporations to do so, full time. (Much the same system as now, really
Originally posted by JaxCavalera
IF a piece of legislation does not receive over 75% of the total countries voting population's votes.. it would be put on hold
Looking at wikipedia, the voter turnout in Presidential elections isnt much more than 50 percent.
Under your "75 percent" rule, nothing would ever happen, ever again.
Originally posted by JaxCavalera
Why do we need .... politicians that are more often than not found to be lying, promise breaking, over paid puppets?
With modern technology, why not have SMS / E-Mail based votes or an online forum poll system
Why do we need representation by politicians that are more often than not found to be lying, promise breaking, over paid puppets?
With modern technology, why not have SMS / E-Mail based votes or an online forum poll system where you get a text notifying you that there is a poll taking place on [insert subject matter of legislation being proposed here].
we have it
.. true democracy
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