"Demokratus."

1997 Koman, Victor (b. 1944). “Demokratus.” Free Space. Ed. Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver and Edward E. Kramer (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1997), 197-220. PSt

The protagonist is a man who has lived in space, which is a libertarian utopian with “customs” rather than laws where the words “taxer” and “government” are profane (198-199), who, looking for “freedom from choice,” decides to “self-banish” to a planet where he assumes a government will make choices for him. The first places he lands is Demokratus where everyone is a “voter” and everything and voting is mandatory and constant. But, as it turns out, most people simply ignore the results they don’t agree with.