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by jdasdf 1506 days ago
>Voting districts - obviously tied to physical land, with different styles of vote counting system per area, often according to local cultural needs. I come from a society where special voting considerations exist in order to achieve actual peace. Prior to that system being introduced, there was war. The right to vote and the manner in which the vote occurs is an essential and inalienable attribute of all democratic societies, often deeply saturated in historic customs taking centuries of diplomacy to achieve stability.

People shouldn't be voting on local issues, land should.

Voting on local issues should be 100% correlated with your investment in that locality.

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> People shouldn't be voting on local issues, land should.

All issues are local on some scale.

So back to aristocracy?
No, because aristocrats could be landless.