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I'd definitely love something like this to take off in terms of async collaborative editing that can involve the public directly, but I don't see how Github is the place for that. It should be a government-run server and require some form of authentication that you're really a citizen of the jurisdiction the law would apply to.

Even then, you'd get trolls, but at least they'd be American trolls and you're not handing over ownership of critical legal infrastructure to Microsoft.

> Rather than calling/writing your local rep, you submit a PR/issue and get feedback quickly!

Learning git well enough to be effective is likely to present some challenges for a lot of the population. It's hard enough for IT people that don't have version control experience in their background. ;)

Yes! This should be the future of government