Also, seems kind of scary that this implies a future where so many people are in prison that their vote could actually tip the balance ?

    • Jourei@lemm.ee
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      Unfortunately it is the honest way. One individual vote has no effect in a pool of millions.

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        That’s not the point. If everyone believes their one vote doesn’t matter then yes, continue on with this futile thinking as it will surely not make a difference.

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      Ideally, it is one divided by population. In practice, because of the electoral college, and because money is speech are corporation are people, it is still way way less than 0.000’000’003