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California has a history of aberrant candidates, from Ronald Reagan to Arnold Schwarzenegger. This year promises to be awfully colorful, with candidates alignment from “Transhumanist Lecturer” Zoltan Istvan to Trump-challenger Rocky De La Fuente.
Now there’s a crypto applicant as well, a self-proclaimed technodemocrat, and he’s planning to clean capitalism with blockchain technology.
Meet Jason Hanania, the aboriginal “technodemocratic” applicant for California’s Senate seat. Using a mobile-based “evoting” service, Hanania says that he can abate absorption lobbying, do abroad with the two-party arrangement and accompany accountability aback to Washington.
“If a majority of Californians evote ‘no’ on any accustomed issue, I will vote ‘no’ in the Senate,” he says in his candidate profile. “If a majority of Californians evote “Yes” I will vote ‘yes’ in the Senate.”
When words like “Technodemocratic” arise in politics, we usually apprehend them from the foil-hatted assembly of Sealand or Liberland. Mr. Hanania does not assume to be that eccentric, at atomic by San Francisco standards. According to his resume, he has formed as both an advocate and an engineer, as able-bodied as two years as an “intelligence analyst and agent” for the FBI. That’s not to say Hanania doesn’t own a tinfoil chapeau, but if he does, he avoids cutting it in public.
Mr. Hanania commendations his antagonism as the aboriginal advance of a civic movement to accept “eRepresentatives” to about-face the United States into a “Technodemocratic Republic.” According to the national website for the evoting movement, capacity would use “blockchain-based Evoting Service” to vote and adduce laws. “eRepresentatives would still accept to exercise claimed judgment,” the armpit says, “but anniversary would be answerable to the evoting after-effects of their constituents.”
A Lunchtime Manifesto
Mr. Hanania has not appear a white paper, but if you’re absorbed you can apprentice added about eVoting in Hanania’s book, Architecture of a Technodemocracy. It costs 5$ on Amazon, but it’s chargeless on the aboriginal day of anniversary month.
The aboriginal affair we apprentice from the book is that Mr. Hanania was absolutely athirst back he wrote it. Here’s how he explains voting: “If the majority absorption is to adjustment chicken, the Democratic Ruler will decide on craven and adjustment chicken. The Democratic Ruler is answerable to majority interest.” A Technodemocrat polloticican?
And that’s not the alone allotment of the book he wrote while activity Dutch. Sandwich analogies reappear consistently throughout the text, as Mr. Hanania explains adumbrative voting systems in agreement of acclimation pizza, burgers and hot dogs. Food for thought.
Join the Technodemocratic eRevolution
If you’d like to accord backroom a try, but don’t like any of the absolute parties, you could run for appointment as an “eRepresentative.” By accomplishing so, you accede to chase the will of your constituents, as bidding in a blockchain-based voting system.
Those who do accompany up will acquire to chase some rules, though. According to EvoteAmerica, Technodemocratic candidates “preferably” acquire to acquire no affair preference, and “agree not to acquire political donations.”
As abundant as we adulation the abstraction of cyberbanking capitalism replacing the affair system, those approaching eRepresentatives are activity to absorb a lot of time angry uphill. Maybe they should get calm and anatomy some array of party…
Disclaimer: the columnist is invested in cryptocurrencies, which are mentioned in this article.
(Editor’s note: while all of this is fascinating, the botheration with Mr Hanania’s arrangement is that it renders him absolutely irrelevant. If his sole purpose is to answer the majority, a simple acute arrangement congenital into his eVoting arrangement would bear the after-effects after charge for animal intervention. “eRepresentatives would still accept to exercise claimed judgment” he explains, back he allegedly doesn’t apprehend added Senators to stick with the aforementioned adamant strategy.
Worth additionally advertence that the Tyranny of the Majority is what led to the acceleration of Nazism in Germany: but we can’t accusation it for Trump – he absent the accepted vote, and by absolutely a ample margin.)
