Emocracy - Emocratic Elections

EMOCRACY

EMOCRACY - Rule by Human Emotion

Have you ever think if our election system could be the main cause to society problems?
And if we tried a new one?

Emocracy is something new, maybe someone else already thought about it. Emotion is something that identifies human nature, laws and elections should deal with that. The "Emocracy" word is based on democracy word and emotional intelligence we all have - Emo(tion)cracy. When we vote there are intelligible and non intelligible reasons on the decision we make, there are rational and emotional influences. The vote is not only rational but also a subjective opinion integrated from several sources of information acquired in our daily life. Emocratic election results are different from traditional democracy. Candidates receive absolute classification and visibility results from electors. Emocratic elections feedback can change politic bipolarization and develop thematic emocracy.

"When I talk about voting with Emotion, I don't mean to vote stupidly, with anger and passion, without thinking about the subject, I mean that people must care with their feelings and decide what's the best thing for them, their relatives and their lifes."

Emocracy definition

Emocracy definition in the net
"Emocracy - The illusion of democracy, where the source of general opinion is not a common set of values, but certain emotions that force a strong feeling about towards an election, a military retaliation, or sports event. e.g., In the Netherlands, a typical emocracy was evident in the huge election victory of an unknown party. The charismatic party leader had been assassinated two weeks before the election."

The results depend mainly from the way system elections are working!

If you think you understand democracy than read this before you keep reading this page, else read it anyway!

In emocracy candidates are not only people but also ideas, ideologies, statements, products, and so on.

Emocracy is defined based on emoticons analogy it has three discreet levels for candidates classification and one more for candidate abstention.

These are the vote options to classify candidates in emocratic elections.

Emoticon	Emotion	Vote	Vote Classification	Vote Visibility
: )	Happy, Consent	Agree	+1	1
: \|	Indifferent	Neutral	0	1
: (	Unhappy, Against	Disagree	-1	1
: x	Null, Undecided, Abstain	Abstain	0	0

How it works

Each candidate has its own classification vote (or not, for blank votes) with an absolute value.

The sum of all votes can have a positive or negative value classifying the candidate.

Positive votes are annulled by negative votes, abstained candidates can have better classification than negatively voted ones.

Abstentions will decrease because people can classify candidates voting against them.

Classification of candidates is necessary to identify good and bad ideas.

Classification is used everywhere, from learning classes with positives and negatives exams to law evaluation on parliaments.
We are classified everywhere we go, why not the politics?

The ballots have negative, neutral and positive votes for each candidate. Votes can be left blank to abstain.

Candidate	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Meaning	Classif.	Visib.
A	X			- A is worst than B, C and D, A is wrong.	-1	1
B		X		- I'm neutral to B ideas, it doesn't affect me	0	1
C			X	- Agree with C, better than A and B and has good ideals	+1	1
D				- Abstain, D is unknown or doesn't care.	0	0

Emocratic results

Results are analyzed by the sum of all absolute votes (-1, 0 and 1). For each candidate the sum measures the vote classification. The visibility is equal to the number of votes (with any value, -1, 0 or 1) of each candidate. This means that candidates have a bi-dimensional vote result. This results can be drawn in a XY graph to facilitate visualization (with absolute values or percentage of population).

Total votes: 180 votes from 192

Abstentions: 12/180 votes - 7%

Positive votes: 126/180 votes - 70%

Neutral votes: 136/180 votes - 76%

Negative votes: 116/180 votes - 64%

Total votes sum: 10 votes - reveals a positive population opinion

Candidate A: -6/50 votes = -12%

Candidate B: -28/102 votes = 27% - B has many votes but he is not the winner, society opinions diverge of B

Candidate C: 20/180 votes = 11% - Everyone has opinion about C, what he said is very important but his opinion is controversial

Candidate D: 24/46 votes = 52% - D is the winner but has fewer votes than B (a minimum acceptable votes should exist)

Many more conclusions can be obtained about candidates and thematic opinions from Emocratic Elections

Candidate results.

Candidate	Sum	Negative	Neutral	Positive	Meaning
A	-6	-26	4	20	A is bad but positive
B	-28	-40	50	12	B is the worse, neutral votes reveal little thematic influence
C	+20	-40	80	60	C is good, C thematic influence is 100%, all voters vote
D	+24	-10	2	34	D is the winner
SUM	10	-116	132	126	Sum of all candidates votes

Why emocracy could work
·	Less abstentions and more participation in the society decisions because people can vote against what they don't agree.
·	Increase of people opinion and proximity to politic decisions.
·	Emocracy can be used to classify people, law decisions, politics, forum discussions, statements, proposals, objects, culture, art and so on.
·	Thematic emocracy enhance the participation of people where they have more proximity (Health, Nature, Society, Science, Politics)
·	Everyone can be candidate, starting from small groups like school and wining positive votes from colleagues about specific subjects, this can work has an encouragement factor to develop more and more skills in that area.
·	A candidate can evolve inside his domain (small group) and later be elected for higher and higher responsibility according to his ideas and his participation in society.
·	Emotion, feelings, racionality, justice, equality, each person can be evaluated by others in direction of a better understanding.
·	The classification of someones opinion or statement (wich can be copied from another one) is different from the classification of that person because in the first case we vote only for an idea, in the second case we vote the person skills in an election as a candidate.
·	Bipolarization do not occur because all candidates are classified independently, they don't need to aggregate in two distinct ideals groups to have good results. The feedback information is larger then democratic one, the tri-state feedback does not mean that there will be a tri-state polarization, in fact there is a lot more information because all candidates receive their tri-state feedback of all electors. Information is the key to judge politic. This way candidates receive enought information feedback, because that information is public domain then, they must prove their true value.
·	People are the owners of absolute opinion value over candidates.
·	If all the candidates available are bad then there will be more negative votes then positive, the winner sum can be negative, if so new elections should be performed. A minimum threshold votes should be defined for election approval.
·	Debates would be much more productive because candidates would have to explain why we should vote positively in them and negatively in opposition.
·	Thematic Emocracy would emerge and increase, because each candidate specialist on its own theme would have good classification on his specific area, voters who know something about that area would vote positively on him, voters far away from some specific themes would tend to be neutral. There would be more types of elections each one about some specific theme.
·	There would be many candidate renovations. The so called politic dinosaurs would suffer a cleanup selection.
·	Today politics are against this kind of evaluation. Nobody likes to lose power influence by collective judge.
·	More equality between man and women in politic life because different needs would appear.
·	A new convergence of ideals would reveal Human needs and emotions.
·	Visibility helps to drive politic themes. It makes possible the evaluation of a large number of specialized opinions and interests.
·	Public manifestations and strikes can be replaced by negative votes. Non-violence can be a result obtained by emocracy.
·	Maybe another utopia, but it worth the try.

Emocratic candidates election sequence
·	Open candidatures
·	People proposals
·	Close candidatures
·	Open elections
·	Voting: Votes are public and results are published in real-time during a large voting period (until vote stabilization). They can be changed to blank, positive, negative or neutral positions. Here we can have from the same elector several vote changes according to the current known election results.
·	Close elections
·	Publish final results

How and where can it be used
·	Emocracy can replace traditional politic elections and it can be used inside parliaments to judge laws.
·	Emocracy can be used to know visibility and classification of laws, candidates to all types of elections, music, movies, consumer products, ideas, internet sites, prices, bar codes of products, objects, ecology, responsibility, justice, and so on.
·	Emocracy can be developed under a Peer to Peer (P2P) system so that everyone can exchange vote data of any kind. This data must have a structure with encrypted vote information and user identification, date and time of vote, vote life time, subject structure, vote access rights and consult rights. This structure should be updated every time someone login to the system in some intelligent manner so that votes are organized and up to date inside each user database. There is no need, and it would result in a vitiated system, to work with a centralized database because what is important is to update new information in real time. Old information inside users data that do not connect at a long time can be forgotten. Database of each user can have only information about themes that are important to him. Information will be decentralized and spread all over the world in time, space and subject.
·	There can be analysis about life cycle of emocratic results in each theme. A theme can live forever or can be killed very fast depending from users participation.
·	Mobile cellular phones can have a very strong impact in emocratic elections because information can be accessed and changed every time and everywhere.

Be aware of consequences
·	As an elector, be aware of your votes to others or your votes to statements, your public emocratic vote collection can be used by someone else to classify yourself, it can also be used to create an emocratic image of yourself and put you in a person group type. You should be the first to know what kind of Human you are and why you are like that and adjust yourself if needed.
·	If someone use this collected information against you then you can publish that fact, the election system will be feedback and can auto classify the guilty author(s).
·	Lies and truces are welcome, you will be judged emocratically!

Some notes
·	In emocracy the interactions between candidates and voters are very important.
·	There should be a continuous election system with interactive votes, this votes are updated in real-time depending from candidates and results behaviours
·	High delays between elections are not good for emocracy.
·	An election is good when there is a rapid stabilization, if not the subject must be debated again.
·	Candidates with good election results can be executive politics in the elected thematic area.
·	There is a minimum positive vote result for candidate election to executive politic.
·	Anonymous ideas and statements with good emocratic results can be adopted politically by emocratic election.
·	Emocratic feedback information is an important case study, and should be developed for society stabilization.

Graphical representation
·	The emocratic elections can be analyzed in emocratic triangles with visibility and classification information. Democracy can be represented by a diagonal axis over the right edge of the triangle. Traditional democracy is measured over the blue line. Emocracy results have bidimensional information. The winner is the nearest candidate to the icon. A democratic vote is represented as =(1,1) emocratic vote. The democratic winner is also the nearest to the icon. Democracy has fewer votes than emocracy because it has only positive votes in only one candidate. The democratic results over the blue line will be smaller than emocratic votes. Their visibility will also be smaller.

·	In emocracy losers will be closer to the icon, but in democracy they are closer to the icon. Emocracy reveal looser candidates that are hidden in democracy by unvoted candidates.

·	We can see here A, B and C results of one emocratic election. a, b and c are results in traditional democracy. Alfa measures the winner distance to the best possible results. Beta measures the distance betwen C and B results. Each emocratic result can be decomposed in the red, green and yellow vectors with negative, neutral and positive votes.
·	The results are calculated with this equation. Winner = ( \|\|A \|\| - \|\|A \|\| ) / 2 Looser = - Winner Winners are closer to the icon and far away from the icon. The distance is measured with the norm. Losers have the symmetric result. Results are inside the interval [-1, 1]. Winner = 1 means that the candidate has 100% positive votes, over the icon. Winner = -1 means that the candidate has 100% negative votes, over the icon.
	The solutions express a circumference near and icons and transform into a vertical line when crossing the classification zero with and icons. The vertical line (, ) results in: Winner = Looser = 0 In the right triangle (, , ): Winner > 0 In the left triangle (, , ): Winner < 0 The solutions for this equation work fine and they can be represented as level curves like this:

	In this case the winner is B because A is over the transition line and B is slightly to the right over the grey line. This means people with no votes can win to people near with lots of votes and negative classification.

Groups and Thematics
·	Emocratic thematics are the different subjects that we can vote inside emocratic elections. One thematic can be part of one or several elections. In the next figure the thematic is related to the A, B and C candidates. But this thematic can have a lot more candidates or be spread over different emocratic triangle elections. With time, thematics will tend to be isolated in one triangle election because groups need to join votes to the same candidate or compete with their oppositions.
·	Several emocratic elections can be analyzed at the same time, thematics can be selected from several elections and develop a new virtual election. This is useful to compare subjects, find solutions for the problems or simply develop new real elections. (This leads to clear groups and thematic interests)
·	Emocratic groups are groups of expert people in specific areas that share credibility between them about a specific knowledge (Engineering, Nature, Health, Biology, ...). Groups may also be geographical (countries, cities) or ethnical (white, yellow, black people) or any other type. They can be drawn as smaller emocratic triangles inside election emocratic triangles to develop conclusions and solutions for each thematic. Groups help to identify the source of instability. But groups can also be voted as candidates, they can be subject to elections as traditional politic groups.
·	Emocracy can develop groups of people to evaluate specific thematics. The experts contribution can be analyzed if groups vote with login and password certifications. The groups are formed joining people with the same knowledge. People inside a group can add members giving credibility to new voters. They must earn enough credibility to be able to vote inside that group. Stability of thematic votes can be analyzed. Imagine A is the production of cloned human cells. If the stability of the "Rest of the Population" about A thematic is unstable then this means that people don't understand this area and they are being influenced by different opinion sources. Stability of Engineers and their negative position means that cloning is not a good choice. But Doctors are little optimist with too small visibility. B and C can have different distribution of expert contributions. If C needs more technological understanding information than only Engineers and Doctors will tend to vote.

·	From now on i will call this type of representations with several emocratic triangles as emocratic trees. Small triangles are leaves connected by vote branches. Emocratic trees can be swapped with different types of groups. The root is the abstain icon . Votes can have several group assignements or none at all. With these definitions we can induct some controversial theories. In good emocracies the trees should be in balance, because there should be symmetrical candidates or ideas with classification symmetry, or with the Visibility(weight) x Classification balanced. Stability will be greater with this symmetry because people will be aware of all possibilities and define well their positions. Another analogy, the leaves can move with instability, this is the wind blowing the tree. There is wind when new ideas or new problems appear. This means that a new balance should be obtained.
·	Thematics, candidates or groups are born by one isolated person or by a collective creation inside expert groups. They can grow to other groups and spread all over the population. Every new person is a new candidate, every new group is also a candidate. This way all groups can know what the other groups think about them (in classification and visibility).
·	Electors can select their anonymous level for all given votes. Electors can be part of groups and sub-groups. They can select the level where they want to vote since they are members of it. For example, the vote can be sent from sciencegroup.engineer.mechanics, but it can be changed to a different level such as sciencegroup.engineer, or another group can be specified, society.family.father. Or even both. But votes count only once for each candidate, they will have attached none, one or more groups information.

Emocratic vote matrix

Vote matrix

Vote

Politics

Engineers

Doctors

Biologysts

...

Votes are given from Electors in the left column to Candidates, Groups and Thematics in the upper line
a,b,c,d = Electors / Candidates (elector can vote itself)
G1, G2, G3 = Groups and subgroups (forming a tree directory)
T1, T2, T3, T4, T5 = Thematics and sub-thematics (forming a tree directory), they can be defended by any elector from any group
This information will grow a lot, the idea is to store the information that each user wants to access and change inside each computer, databases will be spread by thematics all over the world.

Why do we need visibility information in elections if after the election that information is useless?
In democracy we don't need visibility because we never think that the chosen decision, after the elections, could be changed. In emocracy visibility information is used for political feedback control. People can change decision depending from the classification and visibility information. This visibility has information about people interests. In elections visibility starts with very small results inside a thematic group, then it will grow and "infect" other groups and maybe reach all the population.

The degree of consensus, certainty and confidence can be defined in emocracy. Confidence is needed to define groups, they will grow only if there is confidence between elements. The degree of consensus and certainty should be defined inside and between groups and thematics . They need further study.

Emocratic feedback diagram
·	This is the first emocratic feedback diagram, it is not the final one, it can change a lot and get more details. The basic idea is to have a World Image Model with the population opinion about all kind of subjects, the model evolution is updated over time with emocratic election results. With the model results we can analyze problems and develop solutions that can be accepted with stable results and transform them into actions to the world. World changes are compared with the image model in elections by electors and also by groups so that objectives and solutions can be defined. Elections are inside a faster loop feedback then the outside one. The blocks 'analysis study', 'solutions', 'decisions', 'actions' and 'world' form the outside feedback loop.

Transferable votes

There is a new type of vote. The transferable vote with this icon .It is read as 'vote to'
d = Vote to d
G1 = Vote to group G1
This vote is given to a group or person that we thrust so that they can vote in our place to the specified destination. We give our visibility to that group or person, the classification of our vote will be the same of the vote of that person or group to the specified destination (e.g. d or G1).

In this example a gives b more vote visibility. b can vote on c and d. Transferred votes have the same classification of b votes.

This example has two levels of transferable votes. The vote from a to d is given firstly to b, but b transfers his vote and a vote to c. c decides to vote negatively to d and automatically a and b transferred votes to d are negative. d has now 3 negative votes. The a to c transfered vote is equal to b to c vote, they are positive.

The emocratic matrix for this example is

Vote	a	b	c	d
a			b	b
b				c
c
d
Sum	(0,0)	(0,0)	(2,2)	(-3,3)
	0	0	1	2

One real example, it can have many more vote pointers...

Are you confused? Me too!
a..i are electors and/or candidates.
Party A is a group with b,c and d members.
Party B is a group with f, g, h, i members.
T1 and T2 are Thematics.
S1..S4 are solutions.
T1 has T1.S1, T1.S2, T1.S3, T1.S4 solutions.
T2 has T1.S1, T1.S2 solutions.
Party A and Party B have their opinion about T1 and T2 through their members resulting in a emocratic vector for each solution.
Transferred votes through Parties will change the length of the vector solution. It will increase visibility by one for each vote and will change classification proportionally maintaining the vector angle.

This example has two types of transferred votes, one for transferred votes to single candidates/electors (about subject A) and another to groups (subject B). When electors transfer all votes to a single candidate ('a') they give more vote power to his decision about A subject, this type of situation can be opposed with a symmetric situation nulling 'a' opinion. In groups the transferred votes are less powerful, unless all group electors vote the same way. The decision of electors (h, i, j) about voting directly in B or transferring votes to the group depends only from the confidence they have in the group decisions. The power of direct vote is equal to the power of the transferred vote to the group if the entire group has the same opinion. The elector doesn't need the group to have power, he needs the group to discuss ideas and make the correct decisions.

New - Election example
·	Imagine this 3 candidates: 35% like A and detest B. 35% like B and detest A. 30% like C and can live with either A or B. This situation can be represented by this triangle:

·	The calculation of the absolute result with the equation Winner = ( \|\|A \|\| - \|\|A \|\| ) / 2: AWinner = BWinner = [ (1^2+1^2) - (1^2+1^2) ] / 2 = 0.0 CWinner = [ (1.3^2+0.7^2) - (0.7^2+0.7^2) ] / 2 = [ (2.18) - (0.98) ] / 2 = 0.243... CWinner > AWinner and BWinner => C is the winner of the election A and B have more visibility and more people against them than C, but C is more acceptable than A and B.

New - Emocratic Ballot GUI
·	This is the initial graphical user interface for the emocracy ballot, there are no connections to databases, it is only used to check and understand the functionalities.

·	Click the image to try it! You can download the JavaScript libraries to try your own election (look at the html page to know how to use them): Download: Emocracy.js v1.0 Download: wz_jsgraphics.js Vote scale, groups and databases are under development for the next library version.

Development
·	Emocracy is under development, you can find here some stuff about it. I will put updated information about current development tasks I'm working on. If you want to participate and help then select one or more tasks you would like to do or colaborate and send me an email.
·	If you believe in emocracy your contribution is important, new ideas are welcome!
·	Emocracy Engineering is a new scientific and objective discipline for political analysis and development, independent of subjective analists.
·	If you find English errors or any other kind of errors please tell me something by email. English is not my mother language...

To think about
·	Everyone is student and professor at the same time, just as everyone should be elector and minister.
·	There are good and bad students and good and bad professors and good and bad electors and good and bad ministers.
·	Each person is positioned on the society based on quantity and quality votes equilibrium he receives from and gives to others.

Notes
·	Usefull books: "Beyond the tyranny of the majority", P.J. Emerson, The Borda Institute, 1998 "On Voting", Gordon Tullock
·	Rear Admiral - "Well at first I thought it was a football play...only the field was the wrong shape." It is the best description i have for the emocratic triangle! Yes, i want this to be a political football field where ideas and candidates can play to win!

Links on the web
·	EmergentDemocracy - This emergent democracy could benefit from emocratic votes.
·	Some interessant sites: Fairvotecanada forum http://opengov.media.mit.edu http://www.theyrule.net http://www.yougov.com - earn money with your votes...
·	Gíldot - Portuguese forum
·	Halfbakery - http://www.halfbakery.com - This site is near my definitions, they should add visibility axis and subgroups!
·	The internet site orkut has a new member registration system, this is the way that people could participate in emocracy. Registration of people should be done by friends of friends..., this way votes are certified by the number of positive votes of friends the voter has.
·	Communication in elections
·	http://www.braindoll.net/vote/
·	Emocracy is a 'peculiar' voting system based on emoticons: "I think the US gov't should seriously consider this peculiar voting system based on emoticons, what do you think?" US gov candidates in focus @ http://www.ethno-queer.com
·	Full Democracy - http://www.practicalmetaphors.com A very good word to represent leaders that receive power to vote decisions: Proxys Ryan writes about the way we could fall gently into an emergency with the current democratic system.
·	Baazee - http://www.baazee.com Finally a site with emocratic system working (visit here). Used for buyers and sellers who need to have feedback from one to anothers. I think they should put the emocratic triangle working, its easier to understand the classification and visibility of each one. Very good! They used those icons: I personally don't like that much (the negative one), but it works the same way. They should add the icon to unvote! The idea to add the total feedback of the day is great, in elections we could know when there is some action of the electorate. The comments inside each vote is quite good also, i liked the comment of the seller that corrects the problem of the product he had sold, then he says the buyer to change the vote to positive when the product arrives the destination! This is fast feedback!
·	Daves Garden is a garden site where books can be classified with positive neutral and negative votes. You can vote with the icons: correponding to positive, neutral and negative votes. The same concept of emocracy is used for fast feedback. They are still missing the unvoted icon and the emocratic triangle for fast reading of visibility and classification.
·	Fred Nickols, about social and engineering feedback.
	I found something strange. This site refers "THE TROUBLE WITH MEASURING MEDIA BIAS" by Laura Melin "Monitors also frequently use content analysis to classify references to political parties or individuals as "positive," "negative" or "neutral." Numerical values can be attached to these categories (for instance, 1 for positive, -1 for negative, 0 for neutral). For each media outlet being analyzed, the number of references can be added up, and the sum helps observers compare the treatment various newspapers, radio and television stations are giving to different political groups." ... "These methods are useful but may understate the true magnitude of media bias, since they cannot capture many aspects of politically slanted news coverage. For instance, quantifying the media exposure devoted to politicians does not take into account variables such as interview technique, lighting or camera angles, all of which can be used to make one politician look worse than another in the eyes of television viewers, even if both get equal time on a network." ... "Classifying all references to various political groups as "positive," "negative" or "neutral" helps monitors draw general conclusions about the prevailing bias of specific media outlets, but also has its limits. Leaving aside the methodological problem of trying to fit all news reports into one of those three categories, the technique can fail to convey the extent of media bias." The answer by Richard Carver This is incredible, I think they are using he right system with the positive, negative and neutral, but because they are getting different results of the default election system, they think they are not monitoring all the variables and they can't get the true media magnitude. I think they are getting the true result, what is wrong is the measurement of the default democratic elections! The traditional vote is hidding results that where measured by monitors... Democratic elections are not monitoring all variables! This thing somehow proves that the results are different. Of course they are, with more information in emocracy, we get more feedback and more precision than in democracy. Unless I'm completly wrong and blind!

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