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In a sense, we do that now. You're free to have children and teach them your values, but they can't vote for 18 years.
Do you think this idea can be generalised to Ems?
We can generalise votes to carry different weights. Starting today, everyone who currently has one vote continues to have one vote. When someone makes a copy (electronic or flesh), their voting power is divided between themselves and the copy. The total amount of voting power is conserved and, assuming that copies default to the political opinion of their prototypes, the political landscape only moves when someone changes their mind.
Dubious at best. Ems could be designed to not diverge, and there's evolutionary pressure towards doing so.
It would at least keep people from just multiplying themselves right before an election and then merging them again right after.