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Here's the voting system I would like to see implemented: Every voter still gets a single vote in each race, but you can have your vote apply either toward or a
by ThinkingGuy 8y ago
Here's the voting system I would like to see implemented:
Every voter still gets a single vote in each race, but you can have your vote apply either toward or against a single candidate. The candidate with the highest total of "# of 'against' votes" subtracted from "# of 'for' votes" wins.
This would allow voters more freedom of expression than the current system, while being simpler than ranked voting. I understand that it could conceivably (and probably frequently would) result in the winner being the person with the smaller negative number of votes. But at least then they couldn't claim a "mandate for change" based on a broad support of the populace.
- desdiv 8y agoFYI what you are describing is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disapproval_voting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disapproval_voting