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Depends on what you mean. This thread is mainly about changing representative democracy, and the proposals are very abusable, but there are so many inherent flaws in the fundamental system of representative democracy itself that the only fix would be to replace something that was less disingenuous.

As some who did live overseas, depending on where they went, they might end up "sacred straight". There are some hillariously fucked up places to go work out there.

That's more difficult now. No gatekeepers of information means that anyone can say what they like, this has already led to a reactionary move towards censorship. Both of which are horrible and make the viewer less informed. Not to mention, the mass availability of countless sources of...

In defense of this idea, if you made it so that you had to be married and have children (ideally with your spouse) to vote, then that would weed out the vast majority of people who would try to cheat the system. Some people may be willing to sign a marriage certificate in order to vote, some...

That was the ideal of Founding Fathers (more or less), an educated population that could make sound, rational, political decisions. It never worked for the majority. The reasons why could be argued, but I would say that it is mainly due to human nature rather than anything to do with the...

Consider how the system can be broken. Let's say I'm rich, all I have to do is find someone who agrees with me politically but who is poor and give him the money to buy shares for himself. Or, even if he doesn't agree with me, pay him a wage to act as a proxy vote.

Could you expand on that? I'm not aware of what exactly you're talking about, Crow policies were quite extensive. More precisely, it's a logical fallacy to reject something merely because of its association. It is essentially an inversion of the Appeal to Authority, in this case assume that...

There will always be ways to get around things, but a simple system that blocks the lazy and disinterested will weed out ~90% of those people. I did briefly consider that people would just figure out the bare minimum needed to pass and do that. Like how if you made land ownership a requirement...