[pas]

Then votes should cost some money for the winners.

[sidkhuntia]

That makes sense. If it has something similar to a subscription or pre-paid model, then the chances for these kinda scams would get low.

[Loughla]

Which would punish low income folks for no real reason.

[pas]

How? If you want to use the service you pay anyway, right? If you want a particular route you should have some stake in it. (Low-income / low-wealth / poor people ought to get vouchers and/or welfare payments - preferably as a gradual negative income tax.)

[hollerith]

How about we give the low income folks money every month rather than crippling the resource-allocation system everyone relies on?

[sidkhuntia]

How will that help ?