Also, and I will not stop yelling about this even when I DO like the result: HOLDING A RANDOM POLL WITH NO NOTICE IS NOT A FAIR OR REPRESENTATIVE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS.
https://twitter.com/hari/status/1604820070638784514
Methodology matters. How you phrase the question & possible responses, what times you start and end the poll, how people learn about it, whether everyone has access to it, whether people trust the system (will results be followed? will certain choices lead to repercussions?) -
Change these and you will get a different set of results, even with the same participants. Is an election fair if the ballots aren't blind? Because I think we all assume Twitter can see who votes which way. Is a 12 hour poll fair to a global population?
Even getting the result I prefer, even setting aside bots for the moment, I am not going to pretend for a second that this is an "election" or "referendum" that gets anywhere near a reflection of popular opinion. Sham votes are too often used to convey a veneer of legitimacy b/c
we reduce democracy - a large, vague concept of the people being in charge of how we are ruled - to casting a vote, and further reduce democracy to an uncomplicated "good thing".
If we're going to climb out from the anti-democratic rift we've fallen/been pushed into, part of that is taking the complications of democratic processes seriously and NOT allocate even casual legitimacy to every bad-faith, poorly designed nod at voting. #Infomocracy
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