New Technology for Digital Democracy

From everybody's favorite news source, Slashdot, comes the idea for a new kind of software:

"What is needed is a new technology that enables all citizens to safely and peacefully assemble, exercise their rights to free speech, and perform civil disobedience if necessary. This can be accomplished using an innovative application of open-source, peer-to-peer (P2P) technology on the Internet, which we call 'Votester.' Votester does not exist yet. It is the hope of the authors that one or more groups of technologists reading this document will be inspired to create versions of it and make them freely available to the general public."

Any programmers in the crowd?

Posted by chris at September 28, 2002 02:46 PM