What a screwed up way to run an election.
Ranked choise voting?
How about a winner and a loser ?
How about a winner and a loser ?
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There will be a winner and the rest if any will be losers.
I think this seriously weakens the individual candidates ad the voters’ commitment to them or their programs. If your vote is just going to be fed to another candidate anyway, and possibly go to fatten the lead of somebody you don’t want, why bother voting in the first place?
.....but everyone gets a participation ribbon...
“Ranked choise voting? How about a winner and a loser?”
I remember that method where everyone was given two marbles — a black one and a white one. Each color was assigned to a candidate. The voter dropped whichever color they chose to coordinate with the candidate. That would be a fairer method. Would need to add colors for 3+ candidates.
A problem for color-blind voters!
It's kabuki theater voting.
An honest voting system for the electorate would allow a voter to cast either a positive vote or negative vote for one candidate for a given elected office. For each candidate, the negative vote total would be subtracted from the positive vote total, and the candidate with the most positive (or least negative) net total votes would win.
In this system the voter would get to avoid the moral dilemma of having to vote for an (albeit the least) repulsive candidate by now getting to cast a negative vote against the most repulsive candidate.
Sadly, politicians are not likely to approve such a voting system, since it would mean most of them would be elected by having the least negative votes.