I’m surprised that it’s taken so long, but someone has finally launched a web-based candidacy for the election. In this case, the deal is that – if he wins, he will put every issue to the vote on his website and vote accordingly. There are some issues where he outlines exceptions to this rule, and he seems quite hung up on issues of individual liberty and he says he’s in favour of positive democratic reform. His slogan is “Whatever the majority vote is, I will vote that way.”

I’ve addressed this issue here in the past at some length [most recent related rant here] but I think I can leave it to Lolcats to explain the trade-off problem that presents one of the biggest challenges to this direct democracy approach: