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"Its candidates are committed to always vote in Congress according to what citizens vote online."

You've built a system that requires privilege. And you're giving power only to those who have that privilege.

You didn't address the fact there are those who do not have that privilege. Helping people understand the power of digital technology is meaningless if there are those who do not even have the digital technology.

Are you going to buy them the digital technology? Are you going to pay for their internet access? How are you going to provide equal privilege?

EDIT: Who is your demographic?

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Are you going to buy them the digital technology? Are you going to pay for their internet access? How are you going to provide equal privilege?

It may come as a shock to you, but poor people have cellphones and internet, too.

And the ones who don't?

The current world population is 7 billion people.

Approximately 1 billion smartphones are sold every year.

Do the math.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

[2] http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2665715

Because nobody buys more than one phone ever. Those two numbers have no impact on each other.

What do you think happens to all the old phones of the people who buy new phones?

look at the movie of what's happening in the world, not the picture.

The only source that can provide equal access without using market forces, is the State. For the State to have such political will, it must have a political party that embraces the view on why internet access means access to education and knowledge. And that's one of the core aspects of our political party.

Privilege? Think about a system that has 500 decision makers for a population of 300 million. That certainly requires TONS of more privilege than the idea we are proposing here where citizens can have a direct input NOT once every 2 years, but every week if they want to.

Take your time.

I'm not in disagreement with your ideas behind your political party, but I do not agree with the system you want to institute.

Can you explain why? I agree with their stystem but I think that any system that gives direct voting power has to solve issues like vote selling and engagement. I think both should be introduced in the system as explicit economic incentives.

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