[ExI] Time for a political robot party?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Carsten Zander
<Carsten.Zander at t-online.de> wrote:
> Is it time for a political robot party?

On the one hand, one could argue that most of the major
political party candidates in most large Western democracies
(including republics such as the US) are largely already
automata, following scripts others program them with.

On the other hand, actual robots don't have voting rights in
said governments (outside of hacked or rigged voting
schemes).

What about a transhumanist party, that would apply the
philosophy beyond just one or a few fields of technology?

Some stances would be obvious, such as abortion (mother's
right to choose, period), same sex marriages (equal
recognition, though perhaps replace the m-word with
"civil union" in all laws, to distinguish the religious tradition
from the legal one), and energy policy (focus on renewables,
especially solar, and synthetic petroleum to the extent that
we still need it).

But what would be its stance on immigration (as commonly
defined: movement of human beings and enrollment in the
nation that claims the territory they enter)?  Affirmative
action?  Foreign relations?  How exactly would it propose
to reform education or campaign finance (most people
agree that reforms are needed, but the details are
problematic)?

And perhaps most importantly: how many people could it
get on the ballot?  At least in the US, third parties keep
trying to go for the Presidential race but lose out largely
because they don't have the support that comes from
running in all the minor little state and Congressional races.
Would it be able to buckle down and *not* run someone
for President before it actually had a decent number of
people in enough state legislatures and/or Congressional
seats to matter?