Better do it like the old Greeks: they voted twice. Once to get someone into office, and once at the end of the term whether to banish him or not.
Elections would take 10,000 years.
Good point. Let’s make it more efficient!
Everybody gets one vote and one veto.
You can vote for anyone, even yourself, but if a single person vetos you, you’re out.
Add up the votes, remove everybody with vetos, and there you go!
This is how we end up with a dog president and honestly I’m okay with that.
That’s pretty much where I’m at anymore.
Might work harder to shut down USPS though.
You don’t have to do it iteratively, just count the sum of the “out” votes from a single voting and the one with the least wins.
Still not a good system in my view, though…
That’s how instant runoff voting works (assuming you’re still starting with a small list of candidates).
I guess it would lead to politicians being even more sycophantic before elections to not exhibit any possible trait that could be seen as negative.
Not a good system, I think.I don’t trust anyone TOO perfect. Eliminate him!
Depending on the voting system, that’s basically just a rhetorical reframing.
My solution to politics: if 50,000 people vote that we should execute you, we execute you. Pretty soon there would be no politicians left.
Soet of like ranked cboice, which Australia uses.
Removed by mod
Or just let them compete on an island which gets smaller and smaller until there’s just one person standing!
HUNGER GAMES style.
And put them all in the Big Brother house and film them 24/7.
It’s a fun thought experiment. I’m going to cop out and say I just wish my country had more than Republican and Republican Lite to vote for.
Doesn’t the US have more than two options?
Honestly with how much of a reality show the US already is, I’m surprised this hasn’t been tried and televised lol
Do we send the candidates off to a desert island to survive for a couple weeks while this is happening?
Would you get the least worst candidate? I would try it.
Another scheme is random selection of a citizen, like jury duty. You have professional civil servants but the leader is randomly selected and if the leader is doing badly it triggers a new selection.
Define badly
In the UK we have a public petition that triggers a parliamentary debate when the petition attracts 100k signatories. I believe there are similar systems elsewhere.
