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# Continuous voting
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-<!---https://medium.com/giveth/conviction-voting-34019bd17b10-->
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+<!---https://medium.com/giveth/conviction-voting-34019bd17b10-->
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+Continuous voting is a system in which the vote occurs on a continuous or frequent basis, rather than during discrete election periods.
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+**Input:** Ballot, randomized or universal electorate, easy mechanism for vote changing
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+**Output:** Frequent or real-time results
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+## Background
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+Continuous voting mechanisms have been proposed in a variety of forms and contexts, though largely only since the advent of Internet technology that would streamline vote-changing and counting. [Delegation](delegation.md) systems like "liquid democracy" generally use continuous voting.
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+Economics blogger Steve Randy Waldman [proposed](https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/7043.html) in 2018 a model by which random subsets of the electorate would be polled on their representatives at frequent intervals. The same year, BlockScience CEO Michael Zargham [proposed](https://github.com/BlockScience/conviction/blob/master/social-sensorfusion.pdf) a model called "conviction voting," in which votes grow stronger the longer the remain with a particular choice, and greater stake in the system increases vote strength, among other properties. It has been [adopted](https://medium.com/giveth/conviction-voting-34019bd17b10) as part of the blockchain-based Commons Stack project.
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+## Feedback loops
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+### Sensitivities
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+* Provides feedback closer to real-time
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+* Reduces spectacle around occasional ballots
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+### Oversights
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+* No fixed terms of elected cohorts, reducing ability to plan for a session in office
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+* Can instill greater insecurity among elected representatives
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+## Implementations
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+### Communities
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+* [Commons Stack](https://commons-stack.gitbook.io/wiki/) (in development)
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+* Various pirate parties using liquid democracy
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+### Tools
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+* [Democracy Earth](https://democracy.earth) implements liquid democracy
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+## Further resources
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+* [Delegation](delegation.md)
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+* Kay. May 29, 2019. "[Conviction Voting: From ad-hoc voting to continuous voting](https://medium.com/giveth/conviction-voting-34019bd17b10)." Giveth blog.
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