The rule, exactly. Before an election each citizen chooses: to vote — or to take a payment and not vote in that election. The payment is a percentage of the median income, set by referendum; there is no fixed sum. One ballot is one vote, with no multiplier in the count; the vote is amplified only in that each ballot's share grows as others step out. The budget pays under law; a candidate never pays. Only a referendum of all citizens — simple majority, no quorum — introduces, changes or repeals the rule.
The protocol has been introduced nowhere and no pilot has been run: shares, turnout and outcome figures in the chapters are estimates, and the protocol promises nobody an election victory. If a chapter says otherwise, Exact Answers and the Charter are correct. For a candidate: ten questions and ten steps. For a citizen, a mayor, a finance officer, a donor, a journalist, a scholar, a lawyer: answers by role. Everything in force in one file: llms-full.txt.
26. Why AB-EXIT = a Unique Idea — an Honest Comparison¶
Chapter: 05 File version: v1 Date: 2026-06-11 Source: v6.53 §47, §48
How to read this chapter (note of 02.10.2026). The text contains wording that is easy to misread: sums and formulas with coefficients are worked examples: the size of the payment is set as a percentage of the median income approved by referendum. The exact-answers sheet 1d and the charter 048m are in force.
47.1. Twelve real alternative systems (not fifty)¶
Ranked Choice Voting (works: Maine, Alaska — solves the spoiler effect), Approval Voting (Fargo — the two-party trap), Quadratic Voting (Weyl 2018 — theoretically; nobody understands it), Liquid Democracy (the German Pirate Party — delegation), Sortition (Citizens' Assemblies in Ireland — representativeness), Epistocracy (Brennan 2016 — theory, elitism), Futarchy (Hanson 2000 — theory), Compulsory Voting (Australia — turnout but not quality), Vote Markets (theory — the rich buy everything), UBI (Yang 2020 — not linked to elections), Participatory Budgeting (Porto Alegre since 1989 — 1–5 % of the budget), Conviction Voting (DAOs — crypto). AB-EXIT = the thirteenth electoral reform on the same shelf. Not "another dimension" and not "the foundation for the rest". But the only one of the thirteen with a continuous financial feedback loop: the dividend rose/fell → monitoring → action → dividend. The other twelve = one-off (voted, left, forgot until the next election). AB-EXIT = continuous ($780 at stake every day). Like Tesla = a car, not "another dimension of transport", but with one property (electric) that the others lack — and that property changes everything. More modest than "the foundation". But more exact. And testable — and the testable beats the beautiful.
47.2. Compensated voluntary abstention = proposed by nobody¶
Among the twelve serious alternatives and hundreds of unserious ones — NOBODY proposed compensated voluntary abstention with the weighting of the remaining votes. Not "tried and failed" but "nobody tried" in 2,500 years of democracy. Which is stranger and more powerful.
47.3. Six properties of an idea that changes the world¶
Simple (explained in five seconds: "$780 or a vote"). Universal (every country, adjusted by X %). Obvious in hindsight ("why didn't anyone think of it before — a pizzeria is more transparent than a city!"). Impossible in foresight ("pay for not voting?! madness!"). Self-reinforcing (a better council → a bigger dividend → more support → an even better council). Irreversible (try taking back $780 after it has been paid). Among everything humanity has recorded in 5,000 years — ideas that possess all six properties at once, solve a 2,500-year-old problem through one formula, are confirmed by every religion and by game theory, require no new technology, apply in every country and are understood in five seconds = D = M × 1.5 × 1 %.
48.1. David = not a monster but a system¶
City manager David, 52, eighteen years in the post, has outlasted four mayors. Started as an idealist — a master's in public administration, proposed transparency, competitive tenders. Mayor No. 1: "the contract goes to Smith & Sons, that's decided". David: "Rodriguez is $1.4M cheaper..." Mayor: "Decided." The first compromise. Then the second. By year five he no longer asks. By year ten he proposes the "right ones" himself. By year eighteen David = the system. Not because he is evil. Because of eighteen years on an inclined plane without a single stop signal.
48.2. The underdog wins — David calculates his life¶
A new mayor with AB-EXIT: "a full audit of five years, a dashboard within three months". David calculates not "how to sabotage" but "what about my life": Smith & Sons, $1.4M overpaid (he signed it), "entertainment" $450K (restaurants with his wife), a nephew at $45K (who does not work). If they find it = possibly criminal. At 52. With a mortgage. With children in college.
48.3. Three options — and the third = unexpected¶
Resist (46 months of bureaucracy — but 14,000 motivated voters with lawyers and accountants will take apart every argument publicly; resistance accelerates exposure). Leave quietly ("eighteen years of service, retiring", the house is paid off, no scandal). Adapt — go to the new mayor: "I know where the bodies are buried. Which contracts are inflated, which contractors are connected. I'll show you everything. In exchange: no criminal case and a chance to stay under the new rules." Not heroism, not repentance — calculation: $140K/year for transparent work > $0 for dismissal > prison for resistance.
48.4. Telling the truth is easy and pleasant¶
Bulgakov, "The Master and Margarita", chapter 2. Yeshua Ha-Notsri says to Pontius Pilate: "Telling the truth is easy and pleasant." Arrested, beaten, about to be executed — and he says: easy and pleasant. Because the truth = one version, to everyone, always. Nothing to remember. Nothing to synchronise.
A lie must be MAINTAINED. Every lie = a file that must be remembered: to whom, when, which version. A new lie must be compatible with all previous ones. One mistake = the construction collapses. Eighteen years × thousands of linked lies = an exponential maintenance load. The truth = one version. Load = 100 %.
David will choose the truth not from morality — from exhaustion. Eighteen years of maintaining lies. AB-EXIT gives him not an order but PERMISSION to stop lying. The dashboard = it is all visible anyway. He can relax. Six months later his wife asks "how was your day?" — "good", and it is TRUE. For the first time in fifteen years. Rodriguez got the contract honestly. The road will be better. And David did it right. One world. One truth. At home and at work.
Yeshua was executed for the truth — because the system punished. AB-EXIT = a system where telling the truth is easy and pleasant AND SAFE. You do not need to be Yeshua. It is enough to be David. Tired of lying. With permission to stop.