Talk:Proxy voting

Merge with delegated voting?

The text says that proxy voting is essentially synonymous with delegated voting, and indeed there appears to be no difference in the meaning based on reading the two entries and on some outside reading. I propose that the current article proxy voting (referring to the participatory/representative hybrid of decision-making) be folded into the delegated voting article. Andropod (talk) 20:21, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

See http://nornia.org/tiki-index.php?page=Nornian+Democracy#Delegated_voting . It would appear in at least one instance that delegated voting refers to a transitive arrangement, which many applications of proxy voting (e.g. in most governmental elections) are not. https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000530.html also mentions the potential to re-delegate. Is this an essential and distinguishing attribute of delegated voting vis-a-vis proxy voting as a whole? Thespian Seagull (talk) 19:18, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Shareholder voting

I am planning to write an article on shareholder voting, which is widely, if imprecisely, known as proxy voting. (At least the first 50 hits for "proxy voting" on Google are about shareholder voting.) It seems that "proxy voting" should land on a page about shareholder voting and a disambiguation should lead to a page about proxy voting in the sense of delegated voting. Andropod (talk) 20:21, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Reasons why proxy voting is prohibited

Can anyone provide more information on rationales for prohibiting proxy voting? 129.174.54.189 (talk) 22:21, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Proxy voting vs. interactive representation

I added to the article:

In 1912, the People's Power League proposed an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to allow each legislator to cast a number of votes equal to the number of votes he received in the last election. Thus, a legislator who received 25,000 votes would have had more voting power than two legislators who received 12,000 votes apiece. A majority of all the votes cast at the preceding election would have been required to pass a law. This proposal would have abolished the Oregon Senate and placed the state's legislative power in a single assembly of sixty members serving four-year terms. The Governor of Oregon and his defeated rivals would have been ex officio members of the Assembly representing voters whose candidate was defeated. If a Socialist legislative candidate were defeated, for instance, then the votes of his supporters would have been cast in the Assembly by the Socialist candidate for Governor.

Is this really a form of proxy voting, or could this better be described as interactive representation? (See Bill Redpath's description of the latter at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/01/metro/metro_redpath101201.htm ) Ron Duvall (talk) 23:45, 19 February 2008 (UTC)