If you don't tackle the issues of apathy, ignorance, and stupidity then you get the current system and no set of rules is going to change this. It's all a ques

If you don't tackle the issues of apathy, ignorance, and stupidity then you get the current system and no set of rules is going to change this. It's all a question of costs and incentives. Right now, it is rational to be ignorant an irrational when you vote. It takes a lot of work to understand all the issues. On the other hand, if you guess wrong, the marginal cost (because your one vote has such a small effect on the outcome) is fleeting. So the cost to each individual voter to be well-informed far exceeds his the benefit from so doing. (See The Myth of the Rational Voter http://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+myth+of+the+rational+voter http://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+myth+of+the+rational+voter ). So you've got to either lower the cost of rationality, raise the cost of ignorance, or raise the benefit of rationality.