[bee_rider]

Is it just me, or was this idea of a lifetime number of votes rather than tying them to a given election kinda slipped in at the end? And kind of a big deal?

Two outcomes that I find pretty undesirable:

1) A small group of super intense extremists save up their votes their whole life and use them to jam through their wackiest idea.

2) A group tries that trick, fails, and now we have a population of dejected, permanently disenfranchised hardcore extremists.

[derbOac]

I had a similar reaction about the way the article was written. I was confused about the benefits of this over a much simpler rating system, until they started talking about tying credits to external resources of some kind. Holding credits over seems to have similar issues.