And your next problem kind of becomes buying voters. Find people who value a money over voting and will sell you their vote. Australian politicians who speak languages other than English literally target community voters who cannot speak English and give them pre-signed ballots to sign. (To clarify, this is branch stacking and less so normal elections). Illegal - but no one caught has had anything happen. Democracy is largely an illusion today. It’s not fair. It’s not the voice of people. It’s a game that people exploit - the same people who have power, to give themselves new laws, and to keep the game going. Slight tangent… however voting is very hard to solve fairly and reliably.

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I think that voting is only hard if you keep wanting one vote to mean one person. I think this dogma doesn't make sense. Some people are "better" than others (on whatever metric you think is important: wisdom, foresight, whatever) and it makes sense for these people to have more of a say in a vote. PoW is good when all we care about is what we should pay attention to, since it forces anyone that wants your attention to make a provable sacrifice. This means that people that care about their messages will have more "vote power", but that's good. Prediction markets are good when we want to answer empirical questions about the future. The confident and wealthy will have more "vote power", but confidence is good, and the wealthy part is guaranteed for confident predictors that have good foresight.