# kaal:claim:3709041-024

**Claim.** Decentralized voting pools can become supplemental voting systems that help overcome the legitimacy deficit of representative democracies, but installing them as upgrades to existing representative democracies would require constitutional or democratic support that is dubious at best.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- requires constitutional or democratic authorization for adoption

**Source quote.**

> Of course, such upgrades to existing representative democracies may require constitutional or democratic support which is dubious at best.

**From.** Kaal, *Blockchain Technology for Good* (2020), II.2 Microdemocracy, page 16

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

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**Failure mode.** constitutional adoption barrier  (family: incumbent-resistance-to-adoption)

**Topics.** governance-design

**Keywords.** voting-pools, legitimacy, constitutional-reform, adoption-barriers

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808867-020

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