# kaal:claim:3808867-012

**Claim.** Delegating one's vote to a third party whose ethics and belief system the voter does not truly know produces suboptimal outcomes, and delegated voting on issues that cannot be foreseen is corrupting.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- representative democracies in the 21st century

**Source quote.**

> The very notion of delegating one's vote to a third party without true knowledge of the ethics and belief system of such a third party creates suboptimal outcomes. Delegated voting on issues one cannot foresee corrupts.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI* (2021), III. Technological Microdemocracy, page 8

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867

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**Failure mode.** Corruption of delegated voting  (family: governance-participation-collapse)

**Topics.** governance-design

**Keywords.** representative-democracy, delegated-voting, microdemocracy, legitimacy

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