# Voting mechanisms

`kaal:entity:voting-mechanisms`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `voting-mechanisms`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782203-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782203-013) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Across all the alternative polling methods explored in the literature, changes both help and hurt: new approaches solve old problems while creating new opportunities for manipulation, a pattern the authors identify with increasing the attack surface.
  > In all the methods dis- cussed the answer has always been that changes both help and hurt. New approaches solve old problems, but they create new opportunities for manipulation.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203
- [3808859-021](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808859-021) [design/speculative] -- An optimally incentivized democratic decision-making tool would make separation movements in open source less likely, because voters who know the process rewards truth-seeking are more likely to accept an adverse outcome; emerging decentralization technology makes such a tool theoretically feasible.
  > Perhaps if the open source movement had an optimally incentivized democratic decision-making tool, such separation of interests and development would become less likely.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859

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