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Designing a voting system that requires an informed objective voter is hard but not impossible. It would be fun to run a test system in parallel. Try different

by 6510 2y ago

Designing a voting system that requires an informed objective voter is hard but not impossible. It would be fun to run a test system in parallel. Try different thing in different locations with each election. (results discarded) Say, if you want a person to go places and do several things. Surely if you don't pay them for the work you don't get to complaint about quality? Voting for issues as well or in stead of candidates seems needed. We now have a process to hire an employee. Letting the new hire (temp) figure out how to is pretty silly. They should know what we want. (and get fired if they refuse) Adjusting salary to performance (by popular vote) also seems good. Lots of bad ideas we can try without doing much harm. edit: I forgot, as developers we should attempt to solve the puzzle in code. Voting on things is not new terrain but there remains lots to explore.

ReptileMan 2y ago
It is incompatible with universal franchise because some people jusy don't want to be that kind of viter. And if we are not doing universal franchise let's just go full starship troopers.
- 6510 2y ago
  The fun of democracy is that some people will just have to suck it up. Not everyone needs to approve of elections by the proverbial battle royal to the death. I wrote this software I call subjective sort. The algo is this: Everyone gets to chose from just 2 options but they are chosen randomly. So you would get a ballot with Jill Stein and Afroman on it. We give you some time to read/view some about their election program. You pick one, they get +1 the other -1. If there are enough participants this bubbles the list from best to worse. By comparison well informed choices. The demo sorts countries by population. I don't even know where some of them are but it works. https://subjective-sort.go-here.nl https://subjective-sort.go-here.nl enjoy

by 6510 2y ago

ReptileMan 2y ago

It is incompatible with universal franchise because some people jusy don't want to be that kind of viter. And if we are not doing universal franchise let's just go full starship troopers.

6510 2y ago
The fun of democracy is that some people will just have to suck it up. Not everyone needs to approve of elections by the proverbial battle royal to the death. I wrote this software I call subjective sort. The algo is this: Everyone gets to chose from just 2 options but they are chosen randomly. So you would get a ballot with Jill Stein and Afroman on it. We give you some time to read/view some about their election program. You pick one, they get +1 the other -1. If there are enough participants this bubbles the list from best to worse. By comparison well informed choices. The demo sorts countries by population. I don't even know where some of them are but it works. https://subjective-sort.go-here.nl https://subjective-sort.go-here.nl enjoy