US Politician Promises To Use Polling App To Make Legislative Decisions

With American voters increasingly feeling left out of the political and legislative process, one political candidate running for office in Chicago aims to put the power back in ordinary people’s hands. Camilo Casas is promising that if he is elected as City Councilor in Boulder, Colorado, he would base legislative decisions on the results of a polling app he created.

The election is set to end on November when voters will choose city officials for Boulder. If Casas wins, he is promising to base all of his decisions while in office on the results of the app Parti.Vote. The app is of his own creation and involves a style of “liquid democracy,” wherein the common people will have a say on how government works.

Casas will basically put up important city decisions on the app, which will be open to a vote by the citizens, Motherboard reports. If over 50 percent of voters hit “yes” on a particular topic, for example, the candidate promises to honor this decision. If the votes end in a tie, Casas will vote based on his beliefs.

Naturally, this kind of system opens the potential for fraud. That’s why Casas’ team will vet all the people signing up for the app using the state’s voting rolls. This is not the end of the candidate’s ambitions for the app, either.

Casas also revealed that he plans to implement biometric security for the app, which most smartphones are already capable of to some degree. This would significantly increase the level of power that citizens would have on the decision-making of government officials with regards to city governing.

As Futurism notes, it is truly a process that favors a “By the people, for the people” result. Before the advent of the internet, voting on every issue would have been too cumbersome. Now, people can do so with just a few clicks on an app.