# kaal:claim:3709041-018

**Claim.** Microdemocratic vote allocation improves outcome quality because a voter's proportional allocation of votes to an issue is itself evidence of that voter's higher knowledge of the issue, and voters are unlikely to give top priority to issues they know little about.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> Moreover, part of the power of this microdemocratic approach derives from the higher levels of knowledge a given voter has on a particular issue that is evidenced by the voters' proportional allocation of votes on such issue.

**From.** Kaal, *Blockchain Technology for Good* (2020), II.2 Microdemocracy, page 14

**Cite as.** Kaal, Blockchain Technology for Good (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709041

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**Topics.** citation-and-knowledge, governance-design

**Keywords.** microdemocracy, voter-knowledge, voting-outcomes, preference-intensity

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808867-015

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