[governance] Reinstate the Vote

[Craig Simon]

I'm all for empowering a global public, of course, and I certainly 
understand the context of this debate. But it's not necessary to wait 
for a win on those issues before attacking the problems of building a 
next-generation interface for online decision-making. What would work 
for an expressly global polity should also work within smaller 
constituencies... and not just as test beds, but for their practical 
purposes.

Craig

Milton L Mueller wrote:
> Craig:
> Thanks for your constructive intervention. I've reviewed the site and it's interesting. Of course from political science I am familiar with different techniques of voting and yes, one can design systems that are much better at aggregating preferences than what ICANN did in 2000, or for that matter one could improve the voting systems used by any organization. 
> 
> The problem is that we are not engaged on a debate about the proper voting technique; we are debating whether there should be voting _at all_. It is an essentially political debate in which one side feels that they cannot trust a democratic Board election system and prefer something more manageable and controllable; the other side wants to empower a global public. Until there is broader political consensus on this question, the question of the specific technique used to implement democracy is secondary.
> 
> --MM
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