Title: An idea I had for a voting system Post by: tpfkaw on July 16, 2010, 06:32:08 PM I'm sure there's a name for this, but I'm too lazy to look it up.
What if, on each ballot, you could vote for as many candidates as you wanted to? You could check the box next to every candidate you would find acceptable. This could even mean that you check the box next to every candidate, although that would be the functional equivalent of not voting at all. Whoever has the most votes at the end is declared the winner. This would fully eliminate any "spoiler effect," while allowing as much ideological rigidity or pragmatism as people feel like, and produce something pretty darn close to the most-preferred Condorcet winner, without having a ridiculously complicated voting and/or counting system. It would essentially be more fair for everyone. Title: Re: An idea I had for a voting system Post by: Associate Justice PiT on July 16, 2010, 06:36:42 PM That's called approval voting. It definitely has its merits, though I think range voting (where you rate each candidate from 0 to 100) would be preferable.
Title: Re: An idea I had for a voting system Post by: tpfkaw on July 16, 2010, 06:58:20 PM That's called approval voting. It definitely has its merits, though I think range voting (where you rate each candidate from 0 to 100) would be preferable. Title: Re: An idea I had for a voting system Post by: Franzl on July 16, 2010, 07:01:57 PM Both proposals are quite bad.
Title: Re: An idea I had for a voting system Post by: Barnes on July 16, 2010, 07:17:28 PM Both proposals are quite bad. Title: Re: An idea I had for a voting system Post by: Associate Justice PiT on July 16, 2010, 08:13:29 PM That's called approval voting. It definitely has its merits, though I think range voting (where you rate each candidate from 0 to 100) would be preferable. How would it be any more susceptible to tactical voting than approval voting? It's basically the same thing only with options for opinions between full approve & full disapprove. Title: Re: An idea I had for a voting system Post by: tpfkaw on July 16, 2010, 08:27:35 PM How would it be any more susceptible to tactical voting than approval voting? It's basically the same thing only with options for opinions between full approve & full disapprove. Title: Re: An idea I had for a voting system Post by: feeblepizza on July 16, 2010, 11:37:33 PM Both ideas are terrible. People just have to just make up their minds.
Title: Re: An idea I had for a voting system Post by: Associate Justice PiT on July 19, 2010, 07:22:25 PM How would it be any more susceptible to tactical voting than approval voting? It's basically the same thing only with options for opinions between full approve & full disapprove. I suppose there is a point to be had that it would be needlessly more complicated than approval voting when they would probably be about the same in practice. Title: Re: An idea I had for a voting system Post by: CatoMinor on July 19, 2010, 09:25:09 PM Or how about you select 1 person. Person with most votes wins. done. Why do people insist on making it more complicated than that?
Title: Re: An idea I had for a voting system Post by: Bacon King on July 20, 2010, 12:40:45 AM That's called approval voting. It definitely has its merits, though I think range voting (where you rate each candidate from 0 to 100) would be preferable. If you want a ranking system not susceptible to abuse, you'd want something like Condorcet. Title: Re: An idea I had for a voting system Post by: Associate Justice PiT on July 20, 2010, 12:27:04 PM That's called approval voting. It definitely has its merits, though I think range voting (where you rate each candidate from 0 to 100) would be preferable. If you want a ranking system not susceptible to abuse, you'd want something like Condorcet. Condorcet would probably be ideal in the United States, actually, due to the lack of a centrist party to make it boring. :P Title: Re: An idea I had for a voting system Post by: tpfkaw on July 20, 2010, 02:40:30 PM Condorcet would probably be ideal in the United States, actually, due to the lack of a centrist party to make it boring. :P Title: Re: An idea I had for a voting system Post by: minionofmidas on August 08, 2010, 05:56:06 AM Condorcet would probably be ideal in the United States, actually, due to the lack of a centrist party to make it boring. :P Or how about not having quite such a powerful single individual, electable by any form of simple majority, in the first place? That would certainly be the most rational choice. |