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.

I think making it open ballot helps accountability and transparency

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)

curious about crypto UX. occasionally fun(ny)

https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth/0x89638df8

I guess my ideal is to solve the (important) problem of unaccountable internal agendas in a different way: ensure that the selection of voters is maximally pluralistic and uncorrelated (eg. maybe each country selects 2 delegates, and the second is chosen by only the people who voted against the first), to maximize the chance that personal biases and agendas cancel out rather than adding together.

Interesting angle, but I’m not convinced. Secret ballots may reduce coercion, but they also reduce accountability. When votes vanish into a black box, how do we distinguish genuine conscience from opportunism?

Transparency isn’t just about surveillance..it’s about building shared memory and trust. Especially in DAOs or public institutions, anonymity can erode legitimacy if people can’t trace cause and effect.

The risk is replacing one kind of pressure (external) with another (unaccountable internal agendas). Some sunlight still matters.