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-Legacy voting systems face several difficulties in transforming private, distributed, continuous and time varying individual signals into public, centralized, discrete and event-based outcomes. Conviction Voting is a real-time governance tool designed to aggregate collective preferences, expressed continuously. 
+Legacy voting systems face several difficulties in transforming private, distributed, continuous and time varying individual signals (e.g. desiring our roads to be safer) into public, centralized, discrete and event-based collective outcomes (e.g. filling potholes on streets in your neighbourhood). Conviction Voting is a real-time governance tool designed to aggregate collective preferences, expressed continuously. 
 
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