[EM] Proxy - beyond PR

[Dave Ketchum]

Here I take a different path from the recent proxy threads.  Just as PR 
has advantages over single districts, but elected legislators have similar 
  duties, I involve proxies in selecting legislators, but keep the duties 
about the same.

A voter can appoint a proxy to act for them - no secrecy here.  While the 
voter can cancel the proxy instantly, this has to be discouraged, perhaps 
by a delay before a replacement proxy can be authorized.

Any proxy, like the above voters, can appoint a proxy to hold all their power.

Proxies can also be elected.  If a voter participates in an election in 
which they could elect a proxy, secrecy prohibits their also appointing 
proxies.  Elected proxies are elected to a fixed term, as for PR, but have 
the same power (based on the count of votes that elected them) to appoint 
proxies as above.

How many voters a proxy is acting for affects them as follows:
      Weighted votes - a proxy acting for 2N voters has exactly twice the 
voting power of a proxy acting for N voters.  I get nervous about doing 
meetings in phone booths. so perhaps there should be a limit, such as 1/3 
of total body power.  Even a voter acting only as own proxy gets to vote, 
but this may be painful enough to encourage them to appoint proxies.
      Acting as legislator - debating, etc.  Have to hold some minimum to 
have this power.
      Getting paid - done per proxies held, except no pay if unreasonably 
few, and do not get paid beyond what a reasonable maximum would earn.

BTW - a couple minor parties could combine their proxies to get up to the 
debating minimum - there REALLY HAS to be a limit on how many debating 
members exist in a body.

Also, someone wrote of a circular string of proxy authorizations - simply 
has to be prevented.

I read of DD - strange from view of what I propose.
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