Vote sizing is a democratic reform following in a long line of historical movements. In the early days of human society there were large riverbed kingdoms with one emperor who held all the power. The justification for this was that at least this person had the time and freedom to contemplate what was best for the society. Over time these kingdoms fragmented and it resulted in many smaller kingdoms ruled by more than one emperor. Still the logic was that the common people were not informed or responsible to decide what was best for their society.

The Greeks modified this arrangement quite radically by asserting that rather than kings abdicating their power unto their offspring; a chosen set of citizens could reach a consensus on behalf of the state.

From there came the Roman Empire with their senators in which more and more people were involved in the process.

From the Roman's followed the European societies in which the roots of democracy were sprung. As time progressed, more and more people were allowed to decide their fate. Eventually everybody, including women, freed slaves, unproprietied, etcetera, were given the vote in order that they could feel that they had power.

These evolutions could not have happened without the technology available at that time. For example, the Romans didn't even have the decimal counting system (the zero digit) which would have made counting large numbers of ballots very difficult possible. The Greeks had a relatively poor communication network so they would have difficulty including all the city states in their decision-making process. The industrial age lacked calculating machines that could have permitted large-scale tallying of votes. At each epoch four factors come together. First is the ability of a society to harness more technology which enables more people to live together. With more stuff and more people living together and bumping into each other, the result is more conflict. Finally, the people use technology to develop more democracy in order to coexist peacefully.

There are two arguments each progressive movement encountered along the way: The first being that the common people, the recent immigrants, those not possessing land, women, people of color, were simply too busy, too stupid, too irresponsible for the difficult and dirty task of deciding public policy. The second argument was that there was simply enough democracy at the time and what was needed was for people to focus their attention on existing voters in order have their needs met. To petition their senators or train their husbands or beg their masters or beseech or supplicate their king

As in the past, our societies are currently experiencing a technological epoch requiring some kind of democratic reform. Thanks to information and manufacturing technology there has been an radical increase in the number of people living together, and much conflict to go with it. The way out of this conflict is to increase the amount of democracy through vote sizing, or using computers to give weighted votes to those who need it (the poorer, working and middle-classes). The arguments against vote sizing are the same as before: first that poorer, working and middle-class people are not smart, educated, or privileged enough to possess the time to contemplate beyond their immediate needs.

The other argument is that is with one-person-one-vote, there is plenty of democracy and what needs to be done is simply get people to vote better.

What is overlooked is the fact that democracy does not merely exist on the institutional level and the vote does not serve it's purpose if people don't respect it; which they shouldn't as there are a multitude of tools used before, during, and after elections both legal and illegal, to deprive their vote of having any real meaning. What is significant about the prior revolutions is that people felt differently about themselves and each other afterwards. paying lip service to a useless vote or shaming people into silence didn't work in the past and will not work for our situation. A weighted vote means something to people and will have them thinking differently about themselves and the society. This is exactly how humans have evolved and will continue to evolve.

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