Journalistic Voting System's Effects on Election Security Threats and Gerrymandering

Abstract

The Journalistic Voting System is a proxy voting system in which journalists are delegated the task of voting on behalf of individual voters in a western-style democracy. We introduce the Journalistic Voting System and discuss its potential advantages and potential problems. In particular, we discuss its advantages to individuals in the system (voters, journalists, and politicians) and we discuss its effects relative to several widely discussed threats to election security, namely: cybersecurity, social media, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and gerrymandering. The Journalistic Voting System is modeled on a predecessor system, called the Valence Voting System, which is reviewed.