Every Vallentuna resident older than 16 years can register on the website to vote; anyone in the world can take part in the debates, if they can write in Swedish.
Demoex was founded on March 6, 2002, and won a local election in the municipality Vallentuna that year.
[5] It was originally introduced in the Swiss Canton of Uri in 1231, and was structured as an open-air gathering, usually in springtime, where votes were expressed by a show of raised hands.
[6][7] Although Demoex does not stand for any defined policy, it has a clear ideology: To extend the degree of democracy in society.
It means that the purpose of Demoex representatives is to reflect the members' opinions as the online statistics indicate.
If it becomes impossible to reflect the members' opinions appropriately in one question, then one representative would give a blank vote.
[citation needed] Many sub-elections on the same issue can easily put the majority principle aside.
The municipality organized a theme day on "IT and democracy," and the question emerged why so few young people are politically active.
From this experience, a handful of students discussed with their philosophy teacher Per Norbäck the possibility of developing an e-democracy.
They decided to register a party and candidate for the local government in September 2002 with only one promise: to inject direct democracy in the representative system.
The Demoex model became a three-step process: Thinning out consists of removing any irrelevant questions.
They distributed leaflets in the local postboxes, made Demoex T-shirts, and borrowed a house van as base for the electoral campaign.
Though the advertising campaign was small and cheap, it was enough to win the first mandate of a direct democracy party in Europe.
The Five Star Movement is the second biggest party in Italy and use an ideology similar to Demoex, using their own software Rousseau to decide its policies.
[8][9][10] Senator On-Line is an Australian political party which proposes to have no platform but rather to act based on online polls.