Aktivdemokrati
Encyclopedia
Aktiv Demokrati is a Swedish
political party that wants to enable direct democracy
mixed with representative democracy
based on demand by each individual through safe digital solutions like the Internet, telephones or automated teller machine
s.
The party participated in the 2006 general election
with no significant funding and got 81 votes. The party participated also in the 2010 general election
and got 76 votes.
The party organization is cross-political. The party is issue-based and created directly by the members of the party. Every party member can participate democratically in the discussions leading up to a vote and naturally also vote.
There is a board, due to legal demands, but the board of the party has minimal power, and effectively only maintains the technical status of the electronic voting system.
An Internet based voting system, coded in PHP
, GPL, exists and can be downloaded from the forum and set up by a trained programmer. All decisions today are taken by the members with open voting in a phpBB
-forum. Using Alias for anonymity is allowed on the party forum.
Some engineers associated with the party are planning a project to develop a Dedicated trusted computer voting device that can be used to increase Internet safety significantly.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
political party that wants to enable direct democracy
Direct democracy
Direct democracy is a form of government in which people vote on policy initiatives directly, as opposed to a representative democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives. Direct democracy is classically termed "pure democracy"...
mixed with representative democracy
Representative democracy
Representative democracy is a form of government founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people, as opposed to autocracy and direct democracy...
based on demand by each individual through safe digital solutions like the Internet, telephones or automated teller machine
Automated teller machine
An automated teller machine or automatic teller machine, also known as a Cashpoint , cash machine or sometimes a hole in the wall in British English, is a computerised telecommunications device that provides the clients of a financial institution with access to financial transactions in a public...
s.
The party participated in the 2006 general election
Swedish general election, 2006
A general election was held in Sweden on 17 September 2006, to elect members to the Swedish parliament. All 349 seats were up for election: 310 "fixed seats" in 29 constituencies and 39 members at a national level for what are called "adjustment seats", used to ensure that parties have...
with no significant funding and got 81 votes. The party participated also in the 2010 general election
Swedish general election, 2010
A general election to the Riksdag, parliament of Sweden, was held on . The main contenders of the election were the governing centre-right coalition the Alliance and the oppositional centre-left Red-Greens coalition A general election to the Riksdag, parliament of Sweden, was held on . The main...
and got 76 votes.
The party organization is cross-political. The party is issue-based and created directly by the members of the party. Every party member can participate democratically in the discussions leading up to a vote and naturally also vote.
There is a board, due to legal demands, but the board of the party has minimal power, and effectively only maintains the technical status of the electronic voting system.
An Internet based voting system, coded in PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
, GPL, exists and can be downloaded from the forum and set up by a trained programmer. All decisions today are taken by the members with open voting in a phpBB
PhpBB
phpBB is a popular Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language. The name "phpBB" is an abbreviation of PHP Bulletin Board...
-forum. Using Alias for anonymity is allowed on the party forum.
Some engineers associated with the party are planning a project to develop a Dedicated trusted computer voting device that can be used to increase Internet safety significantly.