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This method relies on the idea of a cost, most likely monetary, proportional to the choice. This is obviously incompatible with core principles of modern democr
by xalava 5y ago
This method relies on the idea of a cost, most likely monetary, proportional to the choice. This is obviously incompatible with core principles of modern democracies.
This article reasoning compares the Brexit and Trump votes, and speculates that they might have had a different result by changing their voting mechanism, almost exchanging them. Rather than a good argument, this is exactly the reason why voting mechanisms should be dealt with carefully.
More generally, the idea of voting mechanisms using preferences is a few centuries old. There is an abondant literature analyzing its potential merits but also failures.
- dodobirdlord 5y ago> This method relies on the idea of a cost, most likely monetary, proportional to the choice. This is obviously incompatible with core principles of modern democracies. A standard non-monetary proposal is to have all issues voted on separately, and allow voters who choose not to vote on a particular issue to bank their votes for the next election. This is obviously incompatible with voting by representatives in a representative democracy, but isn’t incompatible with direct democracy, which is how many issues are decided in local elections.