What is Delegated Voting ?
Delegation helps voters to make their voice heard in a decision even if they cannot or do not want to explicitly vote on certain proposals. A delegation is an authorization of one user (the principal) to allow another user (the agent) to vote on his or her behalf. Each delegation is valid within a certain scope, e.g. with regards to a political area like climate policy. This means that the agent can vote on the principal’s behalf in all decisions that are marked to be inside the given scope. The delegations of a voter can thus be seen as his or her personal cabinet. In this cabinet, one agent is responsible for making decisions regarding the subject area A, while another agent is responsible for making decisions in a second subject area, B. The special properties of Adhocracy’s delegation system include: • Unanimity: When a voter has delegated voting on a certain proposal to two or more agents, his or her vote will only be counted if both agents make the same decision. If the agents di
Participants can delegate their votes to representatives and take it back at any time. They have three options: No delegation, random delegation, and delegation to a chosen person. If participants delegate their vote and do not vote themselves, the delegate uses the vote and the participant can see the result in the delegate s profile (for more information please go to http://www.tgde.org/delegation.phtml). Why does the system count many votes even if only a few people participate? This is because of the delegated voting system, see: http://www.tgde.org/delegation.phtml. Why do you call it World Parliament ? Isn’t this more a Direct World Democracy ? Our project has elements of direct democracy and of representative democracy. The parliament name has to aspects: first, that everybody can have a function similar to a parliamentarian, wich will of course be more difficult in the long run with many participants, and second, that through the delegated voting system you can give a mandate t
