ABSTRACT
Democracies allocate fundamental political power equally. However, democracies incentivize voters to remain ignorant, to indulge epistemic biases, and to vote poorly. Epistocracies retain the main features of liberal, representative governments, but attempt to reduce the dangers of democratic voting by in some way apportioning power according to knowledge. This chapter briefly outlines an epistocratic system called enlightened preference voting, in which all citizens are permitted to vote, but the system estimates what a demographically identical voting public would have wanted if it had been fully informed according to some test of basic knowledge.
