Liquid Democracy with Google Votes

Google Tech Talk March 12, 2014 (show more for more details) Presented by Steve Hardt ABSTRACT Google Votes is an experiment in liquid democracy built on Google's internal corporate Google+ social network. A Liquid Democracy system gives all the control of Direct Democracy with the scalability of Representative Democracy. Users can vote directly or delegate power through their social networks. This talk covers user experience aspects of delegated voting and three graph algorithms for flowing votes through a social graph called Tally, Coverage, and Power. View part one of this two part series at http://youtu.be/7UqV3eN9Pa8 Read the paper at 'Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social Network' http://goo.gl/eAxj9e