Could this be done by a third party? If the text of the law is public, and the voting on changes is also public information, a third party could maintain this record.
You get some gain from third parties but it would still like writing code and at the end of the week all programmers send their word documents full of code to their manager and then the manager puts them into the repo.
Politicians frequently vote on laws where they don’t really know the full effects of the law because they don’t fully read it and a word document saying “we will strike paragraph XY and replace it with ZY in law A” doesn’t make it clear what the law change does.
Further down the road, if you would have such a system you could make a law that requires lobbyists to send their suggested law changes directly to the politician in a file that’s like a pull request.
Could this be done by a third party? If the text of the law is public, and the voting on changes is also public information, a third party could maintain this record.
You get some gain from third parties but it would still like writing code and at the end of the week all programmers send their word documents full of code to their manager and then the manager puts them into the repo.
Politicians frequently vote on laws where they don’t really know the full effects of the law because they don’t fully read it and a word document saying “we will strike paragraph XY and replace it with ZY in law A” doesn’t make it clear what the law change does.
Further down the road, if you would have such a system you could make a law that requires lobbyists to send their suggested law changes directly to the politician in a file that’s like a pull request.