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published August 21, 2026
updated August 25, 2026

Weighted Direct Democracy

Weighted Direct Democracy is any system where the members use Voting Weights to directly select the root constitution.

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Participation-based voting weights
A highly fluid mechanism for allocating voting weight in a cooperative, such that large differences in involvement and concern don't become pathological.
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Document Elections
Holding open elections for documents allows groups to evolve their actual governance code in a holistic and directly democratic manner.
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Voter Initiated Elections
Paradigm where all elections can be directly initiated by voters at any time.
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By controlling the root constitution, the members have control of every detail of governance. They can choose to delegate large amounts of control to elected officials or other systems as they choose.

Many different systems can be used to actually make the selection, the principle is merely that voters directly select the constitution by some means.

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Weighted Score Voting
A method for weighting voter concern across many disparate decisions.
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Quadratic Scaling
A way to modify weighted voting systems that dampens the power of members with much more weight than others.
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