publick referendum v0.1 (open beta)
Day 1,616, 08:02
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by lin0leum
as the discussion about where to carry out the publick plebiscites goes on, i bring the demoversion of one possiblity. next to the phorum and external web document, i c the newspaper the best for clicking masses, and the most transparent one. fellow citizens i kindly ask u to not comment on the next article. just make one post to voice ur vote. any improvements, ideas, objections or citicism do post here. we will se how many pple can we reach through newspaper articles. how big the response might be. and how viable this option is.
power to the people, not to the parties.
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i dont think asbtention is a valid option. maybe if u want to semi-wipe the country😁
I voted "abstention" because I don't feel I have enough informations to really make up my mind about the subject.
To my opinion, a referundum about such a question needs to come after deep, objective and neutral informations about the matter (reasons, consequences, arguments in favor and against, ...).
And in general, I think the "abstention" option is necessary to know how many people voted, even if they didn't chose a side.
thats true, a discussion is necessary, i try fix it next time. i don't have that many info either, its just an interesting possibility that come on me mind. okay absention, but to me it's just weird if u dont have any opinion. i believe the propper discussion will keep absention votes to a minimum.
Indeed, discussion before a referendum would be necessary. As objective information an agreement to wage war with a partial or complete wipe would be a tool to avoid potential PTO candidates, an extreme tool but it might be necessary if we have no other tool of defense to protect the state assets.
Power to the people!
You would also reach more people if you would announce the referendum some time in advance, have a debate first and make a lot of publicity (chain shouts and mass PM's for example). There would be a risk that people might get a bit politically tired if there are referenda going on all the time, so there might be some criteria needed to hold one.
Agree with Aldous.
Referendum will not work since it is open to all and there is no enforcement mechanism to it. Also since eBE is a small country, the people who are active in congress will still be the dominate voice in the in game media as well. This really does nothing. Also direct democracy again and again does not work. It is too slow and too much apathy for most to vote base on their true interest.
Also, did referendum passed in your congress? If no, then all of this lacks legitimacy.
Konrad, did you read the text of this paper ?
I really don't think lin0leum tried to make anything legitimate (if ever it was the case, that should come from a governmental paper) or enforcing with this, but he just made a "technical test" in order to experiment things and see how things are going on in practice. No one in eBelgium really believes the results of this particular referundum will have any effect on real politics.
Knowing the trends of politics, they will start with test and soon say it works and that the "people" has spoken, trying to build legitimacy and policy outside of normal means.