Electronic voting requires two steps.

1. Assign a unique cryptographic identity to every eligible voter.
2. Collect votes of all cryptographic identities with some protocol.

Cryptographic voting protocols for #2 with good properties already exist (example), and Bitcoin, which was designed to do something else entirely, brings very little, if anything, to the table. For #1, as long as voting eligibility relies on some meatspace attribute, you'll need a meatspace interaction to make the assignment, no sort of fancy technology can change that.

I see your point, people can actually 'sell their votes' in a way where they sell their address and the buyer gets another vote.

Hmm, there has to be a good theory at least on how to do it, development can come after.
What if the current system of going to a polling station is used, and you still need to show ID to vote. After the ID is shown and your a registered vote an on the spot program generates a random (and I say that lightly) key which acts as your receipt.
You then go into the booth, vote using your receipt key.
Before you leave, the receipt key is checked if its in the system so you can't walk out with it and sell it. At the same time, when you go home you can see your vote in the blockchain.

Thoughts?

I think this is a great way.  But what if Paypal knows that it is for transactions of bitcoins, the paypal account may be suspended.

that is possible, but not more than $10... )

also, i can send as a GIFT, which can not be reversed as i remember

So just to keep everyone informed, I own a good portion of the shares of SIN and for a good while too. I have sent out multiple request to Twsix or whatever his name is regarding a restructure plane, buyout plan, absorbtion plan and no response ever.
My last attemps at communication have been both from this fourm and email with the email attempts bounching back as failure to deliver. The contets of the last message outlined the laws broken including USC codes for illigal securities, securities fraud. Federal law regarding wire fraud and investor fraud, and California state codes regarding the same as the federal laws violated. If he does not contact and or restore service within 7 days (11/2 was the date of transmision) that I will take this to that level.
I have contacted the Legal@ email for his ISP after speaking with them over the phone on the matter and am in the middle of compiling all information on this fraud.
I will have more details when I can sit and write. I am in the middle of a move right now and things are still packed including my office.

This is the same thing as saying "not buying" puts downward pressure on the price. So most holders are, in reality contributing to both upward and downward pressure.

You've got me here - how can miners push up when all they do is producing bitcoins?  Or do you say that today all miners are automatically also buyers now because the prices are so low that buying is cheaper then mining.

I'm kind of feeling the same way.  I feel like there should be an upward push on pricing from miners that want to turn a profit on their rigs.

Myself, for instance, I am not liquidating my BTC I mine.  I feel that I can get more and intend only to transfer BTC out of the commodity when the price has reached equilibrium.  I would imagine the basal equilibrium would be a combination of depreciated hardware values + ongoing electrical cost with a slight margin for profitability.

Of course if such an equilibrium exists, it'd be somewhere below the ideal point for those that paid full retail for their mining equipment and somewhere above ideal for those that paid the lowest dollar possible.

I was really thinking SIN would be a great alternative to actually buying cards, I was going to invest in them but now im not sure if any of these type of company are really trustworthy.

I have to pay my electric bill for my bitcoins too!

Its for mining scrypt and Litecoin not BTC

Game theory and the prisoners dilemma. I know. But I have the belief that we can change the nash equilibrium if we actually tried. Call me naive or tell me I don't know how the world works, all I am suggesting is that we try to come up with a better way of doing things rather than replicating the same problems of the existing financial system.

You asked me if I do anything to gain money at the expense of others, I would only feel good about it if they gave it willingly to pay me for a service rendered or a product purchased, not if it has been accidentally lost by them due to a mistake they made or through some other form of serendipity. Such as occurs in a movement of the market that they could have not anticipated - they are not giving up their money willingly in this case.

When you say that people participate willingly in the market, and therefore your profiting from their losses is moral, I disagree. I get what you are saying that they are getting the chance of profit, but when the price movements are dictated by those with excessive capital, swaying it in their favor, then they are being unfairly robbed of their chance. That is all.