How does Logicracy work?
Logicracy lets anyone implement referendums with a degree of fraud resistance rivaling that of a government-sponsored referendum backed by voter registration, but without requiring registration. However, Logicracy is so different, that it should not be called a “voting site” nor should the questions really be considered referendums. For one thing, Logicracy uses data gathering and analysis techniques that can reduce fraud (like vote buying, repeat voting, foreign voting, bots, and bias) to just a few percent. Thus only referendums whose result is within a few percent of a tie need be discarded. Part of this is accomplished by requiring users to expend some mental effort answering a handful of fairly easy skill-testing questions in any subject categories they choose, before they can vote on each referendum. Logicracy also allows referendum results to be analyzed and interpreted in ways that overcome several problems plaguing straight democracy, such as party-splitting (where a third can
