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Unfortunately, allowing people to log on to this site in order to vote encouraged hackers. Therefore, the actual voting functionality has been removed. Although that functionality was the primary purpose of this site, perhaps it can still help people to become familiar with Direct Democracy and Participatory Budgeting. Yours in the democratic ideal,-alec

Initially, the plan for Rootlet.org was to become a non-profit organization that acted as a charitable clearing house that redistributed 100% of its funds to other charitable organizations by means of Participatory Budgeting. The current plan is not to accept donations, since there is risk involved with handling money and ensuring that people do not…

Why? The idea behind Rootlet.org is simple: use Participatory Budgeting to create a charity clearinghouse.  All money donated to this site is re-donated to charities according to a budget determined by all of the members (i.e. Participatory Budgeting).  So it achieves charitable donations while teaching about a particularly effective form of Direct Democracy. What? A…