# kaal:claim:3808867-018

**Claim.** Microdemocracy's key advantage is the speed of change it can initiate: because technology permits incorruptible instantaneous counting and tallying of votes, voting becomes dynamic and incremental and political will is exercised more directly.

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

**Holds when.**

- comparison with representative democracies whose change depended on elections roughly every four years

**Source quote.**

> Because technology enables the incorruptible counting and tallying of votes instantaneously, voting can be more dynamic and incremental and political will is exercised more directly.

**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

**Keywords.** microdemocracy, voting-technology, speed-of-change, feedback

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3709041-023

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