#auspol #whatif what if the AEC ran a national message board. People on the electoral roll would be would entered as members and made members of groups based on their electorate.
They could create #questions, #issues, #complaints and these could addressed by members of the members electoral office or other members.
Bad actors could be throttled. MPs could create online polls to gain community opinions.
The AEC could post proposed legislation with commentary explaining the legislation.
The would be federal and state groups, all based on electoral roles.
#issues or #complaints Posts would be displayed anonymously but obviously known to the system.
#questions could include a #private tag to prevent them being displayed publicly.
AI bots could scan #issues and #complaints to prepare reports for MPs on an electorate, state or federal basis.
Media could request to be included in these reports.
Elections would be held as currently managed.
The message board could be accessed only via the MyGov app or website to ensure the message data is secure and the same functionality is available on all platforms.
Members are be either #public, #federalelectorateofficestaff, #stateelectoralofficestaff, #federalmp, #statemp, #media

@pauldotm Even simpler … many of the political groups are using Wordpress for their websites. Wordpress has an ActivityPub plug-in. They could simply configure that and have the AEC run a moderation list much like the IFTAS does.

This has the advantage of not excluding people who for various reasons, don't have access to the MyGov application.

(e.g. I haven't had access to the MyGov application since my tablet's screen died… and unless a version of their application appears in the Debian repositories, that's how it'll stay.)

@stuartl what about my.gov.au?
@stuartl you can access it via your web browser.
@pauldotm ActivityPub instances can be reached via web browsers and lots of other things too.
@stuartl my only concern is that posts need not all be accessible. #privacy so a slightly gated approach would be preferable (maybe).