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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
Plebescite
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.