emjicy/oxcart

Oxcart is an efficient vote-accounting methodology that legitimizes group-decisions using cascading vote-capital accounting. It is inspired by liquid democracy and allows for agents to change their delegations and choices. This repository provides resources for implementing the Oxcart methodology in various settings.

What is Oxcart?

Oxcart is an efficient vote-accounting methodology for legitimizing group-decisions, using cascading vote-capital accounting for a closed-system of agents fully delegated within that system, inspired by liquid democracy, and allowing for individual agents to change their delegations and choices at any time.

This repository aims to aggregate methodologies that exhibit Oxcart features, providing an open-source platform for experimentation and development of this voting system.

How it works

Oxcart works by allowing participants to delegate their vote-capital to trusted agents who can then delegate it further down the chain. The idea is that participants delegate their vote to people they trust and respect, rather than just to a political party or ideology. This creates a more dynamic and fluid system of voting where participants can change their choices and representatives at any time once an initiative or election is under consideration.

Oxcart also uses a vote-capital system, which means that each participant has a certain amount of vote-capital to delegate. This ensures that accurate global democratic legitimacy accounting is human-readable between various peer-groups.

Features

• Cascading vote-capital accounting system
• Closed-system of agents fully delegated within the system
• Inspired by liquid democracy
• Individual agents can change their delegations and choices at any time
• Open-source platform for experimentation and development

The original article outlining this methodology can be found here for more detail.

Getting Started

The Oxcart Telegram channel can be found here, be sure to introduce yourself when you drop-in. Feel free to experiment and modify on your own as well and share results in this repository by making a pull-request.

Contributing

If you have a methodology that exhibits Oxcart features, feel free to contribute to this repository by creating a pull request. We welcome contributions from anyone interested in developing and improving Oxcart Mechanisms or contributing to Oxcart Applied Research.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.