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I've thought about a voting mechanism where you'd get 100 'points' that you can divy up... you can also convert points to 'negative' points. Say for example yo
by gremlinsinc 7y ago
I've thought about a voting mechanism where you'd get 100 'points' that you can divy up... you can also convert points to 'negative' points.
Say for example you had:
Sanders,
Warren,
Gabbard,
Biden
and you despise biden... but like the other two...
you could do something like :
Sanders: 50
Warren: 20
Gabbard: 10
Biden: -20
Then you'd add up all the scores, the negative 20 you gave Biden would cancel out a 20 someone else gave him in a positive sense.
This would probably need to be electronic to auto-calculate things as I'm sure many people might end up doling out 110% or 90% if they don't do the math right.
Could also have a button to auto-divvy if you have no preference, or auto-divvy by party if no preference as long as they're a democrat, etc.... I've not researched all the voting theories out there, but I'm curious if this type of system would work or not?
I'm not sure if IRV/ranked choice will work better, but I know what we have now is a major failure, so I'm excited that we're at least testing and willing to break things to get a system that works for more people.