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Really interesting. I'm all about Approval voting, just vote for everybody who you would want as president, and whoever gets the most votes win. Want to vote f
by schwartzworld 6y ago
Really interesting.
I'm all about Approval voting, just vote for everybody who you would want as president, and whoever gets the most votes win. Want to vote for everybody? Go ahead!
Besides the spoiler effects listed in the article, voting has been made deliberately difficult in America. There is a deliberate effort to disenfranchise voters to keep things from changing. Anything that makes voting EASIER will create fairer elections, which neither party really wants unfortunately. Approval voting is the hardest for the voter to mess up, and therefore will likely be the fairest. You can screw up Ranked Choice. The Borda / Condorcet methods involve more complex math which can be screwed up. Approval voting is just simpler, which means your vote is more likely to be counted the way you meant for it to be.
This could, of course, be coupled with other measures that make voting easier. Instead of a single day, make it a month so that people can go around their work schedule and lines will be shorter.
In fact, in person voting is easier to scam than mail-in voting, so the fairest option would be to make mail-in voting very very easy. Print off your ballot online or pick one up at the post office or whatever, and send it in. When you vote in person, mistakes/hacking/etc are simpler because you can target a district that seems like it will skew a certain way. Mailed in votes should be scanned and counted and the anonymized scans should be made publicly available so the populace/press can verify the results themselves.
It won't happen because both parties have a vested interest in preventing it from happening. Fairer elections don't produce candidates like Trump and Biden.
- ClayShentrup 6y agoWell, Fargo adopted approval voting by a 64% majority, and a ballot measure to bring it to St Louis this November is polling at 72% support.
- schwartzworld 6y agoI meant on a national scale.
- anchpop 6y agoDoing it on a national scale is tricky because to do it right you need to do it in a majority of states at once