EPISODE · Jun 30, 2026 · 22 MIN
What Happens When Everyone Votes on Everything?
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Estonia has run secure nationwide i-voting for two decades. Switzerland has held over 650 national referendums since 1848. Taiwan's vTaiwan platform has processed hundreds of policy proposals through digital deliberation. So if the technology clearly works, why are we still electing representatives? This episode examines the real-world data from four major experiments in direct and liquid democracy — Estonia, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the German Pirate Party's LiquidFeedback system — and uncovers why the bottleneck isn't the voting app. It's cognition, participation inequality, and the uncomfortable truth that someone still has to write the laws.
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Estonia has run secure nationwide i-voting for two decades. Switzerland has held over 650 national referendums since 1848. Taiwan's vTaiwan platform has processed hundreds of policy proposals through digital deliberation. So if the technology clearly works, why are we still electing representatives? This episode examines the real-world data from four major experiments in direct and liquid democracy — Estonia, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the German Pirate Party's LiquidFeedback system — and uncovers why the bottleneck isn't the voting app. It's cognition, participation inequality, and the uncomfortable truth that someone still has to write the laws.
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