You may lose the information-gathering function though—in @RedStateBlueState’s model, we learn what proportion of the Forum user base voted for Charity X (and what portion of those users’ votes it received). That would be difficult to get in your decentralized take—an org would have to determine ForumUser status, and figure out the share of each user’s vote it received.
Ah but the genius of it is that you still have all of the information—it’s just also distributed! Each person knows exactly who they voted for, and as a bonus they avoid having to entrust any of their data to a centralized system which could be controlled by any kind of nefarious types. (I heard that the US had issues with election integrity in 2020, and if a major nation can’t manage this, I think it’s really a bit much to expect a shoestring-budget org like CEA to manage it.)
You may lose the information-gathering function though—in @RedStateBlueState’s model, we learn what proportion of the Forum user base voted for Charity X (and what portion of those users’ votes it received). That would be difficult to get in your decentralized take—an org would have to determine ForumUser status, and figure out the share of each user’s vote it received.
Ah but the genius of it is that you still have all of the information—it’s just also distributed! Each person knows exactly who they voted for, and as a bonus they avoid having to entrust any of their data to a centralized system which could be controlled by any kind of nefarious types. (I heard that the US had issues with election integrity in 2020, and if a major nation can’t manage this, I think it’s really a bit much to expect a shoestring-budget org like CEA to manage it.)