Thanks for your last reply. Believe it or not, I agree with you on some points in your last statement. because now we can move on to discussing the solution. My main point is that an electoral college type system is itself subject to corruption. If a steemit system mimicking the EC were setup, as you described with them receiving and controlling the SP from steemit account, what's preventing them from abusing it or favoring who the want. There's a reason the USA doesn't really strictly on EC but also uses popular vote. The EC is supposed to follow the will of the popular vote but are not required to. Hencen, two hugely unpopular presidents got in office against the will of the people.

Haejin has so many followers because he has manipulated the system, marketed steemit as get rich by convincing his followers to upvote him, and as I understand it, having multiple of his own accounts upvoting him. In America that'd be some kind of fraud, but I don't specifically which one. Self dealing maybe. Bribery. I dunno. Not a legal expert.

I think you have a thought out idea which has merit, but doesn't account for all the factors at play. It's good to have someone, you, give a suggestion to address the abuse. It needs worked out and that isn't going to happen until more people present proposals for a solution to come to some agreement.

however, I'm not sure how setting up an EC type of thing would still keep steemit's decentalized but honestly I'm so new I don't fully understand all this crypto stuff.