Tech political party chasing members
A new interactive political party appealing to tech-savvy voters hopes to boast a membership base greater than that of the Australian Greens in time for polling day.
Voteflux.org was registered with the Australian Electoral Commission in late March and already has almost 2000 members.
"We don't have a target but it would be nice to be bigger than the Greens - if we have 9000 members by the cut-off we will be well-placed," the party's deputy leader, founder and financier Max Kaye told AAP on Tuesday.
In the next week the party plans to name two senate candidates for each state to run in the July 2 double dissolution election.
If successful, members will get to vote using a smart phone app on each bill up for consideration by the upper house.
Party representatives will vote accordingly in the chamber.
The party is proving most popular with members aged 28 according to its website, but the tech platform will limit its appeal, Mr Kaye admitted.
"Fifty per cent are aged over 35 and 50 per cent are under 35 and 1932 is the earliest year of birth among our members," he said.
With a background in software development, and money made from Bitcoin, Mr Kaye has spent years designing the Voteflux.org structure which includes an economics-based market-share system for trading and storing votes.
And he hasn't ruled out preference deals with other minor parties in exchange for voting rights.
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