Currently in Switzerland, you vote four times a year, each time on some five of six referendum questions. But some of those are or cantonal or municipal level and thus not super interesting for the national media. Let’s say there are three Swiss-wide referendums each quarter, that is 12 a year. I think media can manage that.
Number going up 100x would be a problem, but the load is limited by:
For a referendum to take place at all, a certain amount of signatures have to be gathered. Lots of oddball referendums fail at this stage.
Significant portion of referendums is solved by negotiation (see article) and does not reach the voter at all.
Even if the voter is not properly informed they can either not vote (with no quorum that has no impact on the result) or vote “no” (which means “keep the status quo”).
Currently in Switzerland, you vote four times a year, each time on some five of six referendum questions. But some of those are or cantonal or municipal level and thus not super interesting for the national media. Let’s say there are three Swiss-wide referendums each quarter, that is 12 a year. I think media can manage that.
Number going up 100x would be a problem, but the load is limited by:
For a referendum to take place at all, a certain amount of signatures have to be gathered. Lots of oddball referendums fail at this stage.
Significant portion of referendums is solved by negotiation (see article) and does not reach the voter at all.
Even if the voter is not properly informed they can either not vote (with no quorum that has no impact on the result) or vote “no” (which means “keep the status quo”).