This is an interesting topic.

I kinda look at this, in terms of "what technology can bring to the table".

So, like, today, one of the big problems is, government has too much work. There's like 300 million people in the US, and there bezillions of ideas floatin' around, and "lots" of 'em end up as bills or something "formal" that elected representatives have to consider -

And I mean, look at it from the point of view of your local Senator or whatever - that poor guy (or girl) is being inundated with opinion, right? PLUS, they still gotta get out there and do their little speeches on the Senate floor, and they still gotta do all their behind-ths-scenes negotiating and stuff, and so, all this -

The result of all this, is a kind of "compression", in the way the government does business, and it's reflected in things like "packaged" bills - like the "omnibus spending bills", for instance, right? Where the bill itself, is this huge aggregation of thousands of seemingly unrelated items (including most famously, some kinda "pork" usually) -

So it seems to be, that one of the benefits than an electronic type of technology can bring to the table, is this kinda idea of "separating the issues" again, right? I mean, the real reason they're "combined" in the first place, is just 'cause there's too many of 'em, and it seems me, that electronic voting could make that whole process "more efficient" that way -

And the benefit to We the People, would be that we get to consider the issues individually again, instead of having to make decisions on the basis of some "lump aggregate" of whatever "compromise" happens to have been worked out that day -

Um... let's see... immigration - perfect example, right? The "compromise" there, was this huge aggregate thing, that involved changes to border control, labor practices, social services, I mean, all kinds of stuff was in that McCain-Kennedy thing, right?

But the People, it seems to me, kinda had the smarts to "individuate" the issue of "border control" out of that whole thing, and it seems to me, that the People kinda indicated to the politicians at that point, that they didn't like the "package", and just wanted to vote on the "individual issue", right?

See what I mean? So, it seems to me, that this idea could be very helpful.