A new type of voting system
Now, lets talk about voting systems. When voting, a voter is presented with two functions: vote for one of the options, or don’t vote. I suggest we add a third: forward your vote to a third party.

This is the essence of “representative democracy”, but I’m talking about expanding it – in representative democracies everybody forwards their vote to a predefined subset of the people, and each representative has an equal weight in subjects. Here I’m saying anybody can forward their vote to anybody, and forwarding votes increases the weight of that individual’s vote.

http://smari.yaxic.org/blag/2008/05/27/the-shadow-parliament-project/

I’m not so up for messing with existing states – but this idea of an issue base which people vote on in this transferrable way makes a lot of sense. I remember thinking something along these lines through in the mid-1990s and coming to broadly similar conclusions.

Two things that I think are important.

1> How many people need to vote on an issue for it to be binding?

2> How are new issues tabled?

My approach would be to have issues bubble up – people vote yes or no on something, in a manner (god help us) much akin to Digg or Reddit – and issues which make the “front page” have a binding decision made on them.

Dumb as this might sound, if it works for filtering interesting content from the endless noise of the Internet, it might well work well enough to filter common sense from the ocean of dunderheaded idiots that seem to make up our political classes.