Note: This is more or less ideas to play with, not something I endorse in full.
Note: This is a work in progress I may change and edit things.
Our current voting system
Every 4 years we get together an make a big hoopla about who to vote for president. Every 2 years and some times other times there are votes for other things and people. It is very static. All it takes is a candidate who can put on a good campaign show or propaganda then we have to deal the results for years.
The overhaul
There are multiple big changes that could be made. I had this idea after exploring the site isidewith.com It is a very advanced political quiz that lets you login and answer probably a hundred or more questions then matches you with candidates and party platforms. If you haven’t checked it out it will be worth your time the site has all kinds of sections and info. You can create a login to save and change quiz answers anytime. My thought after visiting the site was: Why isn’t our actual voting system more like this?
The first big change would be to make voting non static.
There is no specific voting date people just log in and change their vote whenever they want. Then issues and candidates change after certain thresholds are are met. (These thresholds will be the main debate. more on this later) This will keep office holders in check they can’t just run a nice campaign then once they are in do something different. People and issues will change much faster if they screw up. This would also make term limits pointless.
Thresholds
Right now the threshold is more than 50% wins and replaces, with complications of the electoral college to apparently make things more fair.
There would be multiple thresholds and 50% would not be a likely number.
For candidates – you would have a threshold to get into office preferably much higher than 50% and then a different minimum thresholds to get kicked out so that we aren’t changing things by the hour. or minute. There may be gaps with no one in office. That may even be one of the options to vote for.
For issues – you would have more than just pass or fail bills. No vote = no change. Votes to move in certain directions are just that. highest % wins
example: increase tax 20% decrease tax 30% no vote 50% No change wins
Another big change that others have already brought up is Ranked voting or something similar. This is basically just putting candidates in order based on how much you want them to win so it’s not all or nothing voting. You might still get someone you kinda like. This would make primary voting stuff obsolete. Another similar one would be to give each voter a certain amount of point and have them give how ever many points to who ever they want. It could even be all for one; kind of like character sheets in RPGs
Not voting = no change I mentioned this earlier. The voting includes the entire population not just voters. Right now it’s either no change or a move in one particular direction on issues. Pass/fail bills only move in one direction or nowhere.
