Vote Sizing Institute

Vote sizing is a way to modify the way elections are held by using computer technology to adjust the size, or weight, of individual votes.

Using barcodes on paper ballots, various criteria can be stamped on each person's vote; so when the votes are added up, some people's votes count for more than others.

Vote sizing is already in place, as different people naturally get different sized votes; depending on where they live, how active they already are in politics, how much money they use to help out campaigns, how much influence they have with the media, etc. Pure 1-person-1-vote democracy is simply not possible; the closest we can come is a jury, but only because a jury has such a small amount of voters and so much time to hash out their differences.

The 1-person-1-vote version of democracy has become a rigged system, before, during and after elections, both legally and illegally. In order for power to work it needs to be concentrated. Right now, our ballots are manipulated beyond our control, and the saboteurs who end up with the real power are those who have wealth. Concentrating wealth and power together is our definition of corruption.

Separating wealth from power, on a real and individual level through mechanisms like vote sizing, is the way to achieve harmony and sustainability. Capitalistic values and communistic values are different but compatible, though democratic reforms like vote sizing. Empowering those who have nothing and learning how to all get along is what we do as a species when confronting corruption-based crises like we are experiencing nowadays.

Many people who accept the principles of vote sizing do so with the idea of promoting responsibility-based vote sizing - giving larger votes to smarter, more successful, more esteemed, or higher tax-paying citizens. Although this logic has some validity, it is not what we do to survive crises. The method of vote sizing endorsed on this website is need-based - giving larger votes to those who need it - which can be calculated inversely to the numbers on income tax records.

This kind of inverse-based vote sizing to empower those who need power can also be performed in other sectors of society, such as:

• In businesses, electing the board of directors, remunerations, dividend policy, etc  by giving the lowest paid employees the largest say.
• In schools, giving the poorest performing students a larger say over the direction of the classroom.
• In sports, giving the poorest performing athletes the most say over the direction of the team.
• In punitive institutions, giving the most penalized prisoners the most say over the conditions in the prison.

In every vote sizing situation, it is not necessary to let those in need have total control over all reforms. In the political system, nothing needs to change except to start printing bardcodes on ballots - keeping the exact same governmental infrastructure in place. The only change is that with vote sizing it's easier for those most negatively effected by corruption to reform the system. But don't expect massive revolution or externally dramatic changes to happen overnight - this didn't occur when women got the vote, freed slaves got the vote, citizens got the vote, etc. In a vote sized company it is still only certain policies and directors which might be affected; but the idea of workers working towards better working conditions and investors getting better return on investment remain in place. The internal, personal changes in attitude are just as meaningful as the institutional changes.

Like all democratic reforms preceding this one, vote sizing is not a magic cure-all that will fix (or destroy) everything overnight; it is simply a way for all of us to take more responsibility over what we want, and how we can live together.

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