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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 12 March 2014 06:10:31PM 1 point [-]

J. S. Mill had a similar idea:

...one might also mention his acceptance of the principle of multiple votes, in which educated and more responsible persons would be made more influential by giving them more votes than the uneducated.

-- Wilson, Fred, "John Stuart Mill", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Comment author: Filipe 12 March 2014 06:18:34PM *  -1 points [-]

Even though he calls it "The Smart Vote", the concept is a way to figure out the truth, not to challenge current democratic notions (I think), and is quite a bit more sophisticated than merely giving greater weight to smarter people's opinions.

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