# kaal:claim:3808867-015

**Claim.** Microdemocratic vote allocation improves voting outcomes because the proportion of votes a voter allocates to an issue evidences that voter's higher level of knowledge on the issue, and voters are unlikely to give top priority to issues they know little about.

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

**Holds when.**

- voting systems that allocate a maximum number of votes per voter across issues
- quadratic voting style designs

**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.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI* (2021), III. Technological Microdemocracy, page 10

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

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

**Keywords.** microdemocracy, quadratic-voting, voting-design, knowledge-aggregation

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3709041-018
- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3709041-017

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