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E-democracy service provides free low-fraud referendums without voter registration

Huntsville, Alabama, May 3, 2007 -- The Logicracy Group, a non-profit start-up in Huntsville, Alabama, has announced the premier of its referendum service, Logicracy.org. The web site provides free tools that let users create, judge, and analyze referendums on a private, regional, or national level without the need for voter registration and with high resistance to fraud.

Vote buying, foreign voting, repeat voting, bots, account selling, and bias, among other things are minimized. A path is also provided to expose any malicious activity by site administrators.

Besides employing several standard security techniques such as pattern recognition tests and IP address monitoring, much of the remaining fraud is overcome through the particular data gathering and analysis methods employed. Part of this is accomplished by requiring users to expend some mental effort answering a handful of fairly easy skill-testing questions in any subject categories they choose, before they can vote on each referendum. Raw data is gathered on all answers to all questions and then any user can create a graphical analysis to reveal the referendum result. Analyses may then be published for public debate and criticism. To eliminate bias, all content is submitted and judged for quality by users. Technical details are available in the site FAQ.

The referendum result produced by the service is not the same as that produced by counting votes. A referendum is resolved by noting the high point in a curve fitted to a scatter plot distribution. This form of analysis has several advantages over counting votes and in fraud management, including some of the more beneficial advantages of a competence-weighted democracy. Competence can be defined as any combination and degree of things like skill in subjects ranging from classic television trivia to quantum mechanics, general intelligence, user consistency in answering sets of dependent opinion questions, a user's ability to predict the future (by noting the user's previous predictions to a present fact), knowledge of the subject of the referendum (such as geophysics for a referendum on global warming), and users ability to estimate their own expertise in a subject.

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