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Explanation:
The best solution is having BOTH direct and representative democracy. There are no pure direct democracies, except in very small groups. Switzerland, Uruguay, and 24 US states plus the District of Columbia have both.
If you have just representative democracy, eventually the rich will likely control it by bribing the representatives, funding their campaigns, promising them great jobs or other benefits in the future, etc.
When the people also can make laws directly, it acts as a check and balance on the representatives. The people always have a "Plan B," if the representatives don't do what is wanted.
In the United States, everything from women's suffrage, direct election of senators and secret ballots to minimum wages and Sunshine Acts to renewable energy mandates and medical and legal marijuana all started with ballot initiatives (direct democracy), and later representatives copied them and sometimes improved on them
Colorado, with an easier process to get on the ballot than most States, has the best record of initiatives in the last 18 years
Here are several ways direct democracy can be improved:
1. Citizen initiative review, which started in Oregon and is now being tried in Colorado and Arizona. Randomly selected citizens juries hold hearings, take expert testimony, and deliberate, all on videotape, an issue reports. This way voters get the same kind of information that legislators get
2. California has new laws which allow some negotiation between ballot initiative sponsors and the legislature, between direct and representative government
3. Allowing people to sign ballot initiative petitions online, just like 37 US states allow you to register to vote and change your address online, usually at the Secretary of State's website, would have many advantages: the Secretary of State would save a lot of time and money by not having to compare so many physical signatures on petitions to those on file, initiative sponsors wouldn't have to be so wealthy, thus allowing more people to participate, people would be more likely to read the initiative text online than when being asked for a signature, and there would be less harassment for signatures. The money that the Secretary of State and/or initiative sponsors would save could be used to fund Citizen Initiative Review.
Boulder Colorado passed a referendum for this last November 71 to 29%
