Voting Mechanisms

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Design & Discussion - Voting Mechanisms
November 2002

Policies can be voted in.

There are several kinds of votes.

Nomination
A nomination refers to placing an individuation in a position of accellerated responsibility.

Referendum
A referendum is a

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The XR provides several standard Voting mechanisms for the use of Citizens.

They are: Call to Consensus
A Call to Consensus is basically a Rodney King maneuver. When people are highly divided over some issue, a C2C allows some basic agreement to take place. A C2C is generally called over a document which has no particular presciptve value. Instead this docusment is a simple list of values or points that most people agree on. Thes may or may not be useful in wonking resolutions.

Ranking:
A Ranking is a simple vote in which individuals are given tokens and a large list of nominated entities upon which to cast their votes. The preferred method for Ranking votes are Borda.