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Vitalik Buterin
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IMO UN resolution votes should be secret ballot. Each country can choose (and replace) their own representative, but once the choice is made, what the representative does is up to their own conscience. Less "pressuring" by great powers, more seeing how people really think.
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More generally, perhaps a core theme of the next wave of democracy will be less "transparency and accountability" and more deliberate indirection and room for (pluralistic, aggregated) individual conscience. (this applies to DAOs too; eg. see NounsDAO https://aztec.network/blog/nounsdao-private-voting-final-update)
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Meanwhile, "green room" politics at the WTO have highlighted that lacking transparency left small and middle powers scrambling for trade concessions (see https://doi.org/10.1177/146499340900900408). A bloc of large members formed before the vote and decided *what* will be voted on - breaking anonymous votes.
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