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Just a thought experiment, what if we can vote against one political candidate. Does this bring better or worse democracy?
by est 5y ago
Just a thought experiment, what if we can vote against one political candidate. Does this bring better or worse democracy?
- joelthelion 5y agoEven better: rate each candidate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_judgment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_judgment
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- shagie 5y agoYou have candidates A, and B and a fringes candidate Ca, Da, and Eb. The "a" and "b" are broadly supportive of A and B, but their own party (think green tends to align with liberal and church goers tend to align with conservative). Now, a supporter of the A party ideals is faced with "minus vote" B or Eb. And likewise, a supporter of the B party ideals is faced with "minus vote A, Ca, or Da". And so, instead of getting a relatively moderate A or B, you're much more likely to get an extremist in one of the minor parties. Consider the "I'm not 100% in favor of B, but I really don't want Ca, or Da to get elected - how do I vote?" You get into the comparison of voting systems - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_electoral_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_electoral_system... ... and a minus vote system would likely fail a number of the tests. To that end, it would likely result in a worse democracy. For https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_California#Results https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia... - consider would the Peace and Freedom party or American Independent Party have won? Are either of their views more representative of California than those of the Democratic Party? No... I don't think that such a voting system would work.