While I have been pointing out all the problems with our current representative democracy, and trying to convince you that a system based on Ikanocracy would be better, I have to admit there are still a few wrinkles to work out with Ikanocracy. One of the ideas of Ikanocracy is to take advantage of new information dissemination technology, namely the internet, to modernize our governmental structures.
However, there are still some problems with electronic voting, as was illustrated recently in a election for the Board of Education in Washington DC. They thought they had such a foolproof system, they dared hackers to hack it, and it turned out that it wasn't too hard to do, as Bender (the Robot from the TV show Futurama) won in a landslide.
Technological tampering is a serious concern with electronic voting, and we still have no clear solution. What about open source for all software running the electronic voting system, or multiple servers processing the raw data at distributed sites?
Just like "Brown vs the Board of Education" paved the way for integration of schools and the civil rights movement in the US, perhaps Bender vs the Board of Education can be a pivotal moment in the development of tamperproof electronic voting systems and in the Ikanocracy movement.
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