[Albert Moulton]

I really think our founders' concept of representative democracy is a little better than direct democracy because I would rather vote for a person I entrust to study issues and make well reasoned decisions than personally vote on a host of individual issues that I don't fully understand.

I am not a big fan of direct democracy as practiced in my state of California, for example, via the proposition system. I think it lets the legislature off the hook for making tough decisions.

I realize big money and career politics has a ton of problems, but I'd prefer those problems to everybody voting on a large number of critical issues they don't know very much about.

Instead of finding a system to weight votes, or limit votes to get people to vote on issues they know and/or care about, I'd rather vote for representatives and expect them to do their jobs well.