I've thought about a voting mechanism where you'd get 100 'points' that you can divy up... you can also convert points to 'negative' points.
Say for example you had:
Sanders,
Warren,
Gabbard,
Biden
and you despise biden... but like the other two...
you could do something like :
Sanders: 50
Warren: 20
Gabbard: 10
Biden: -20
Then you'd add up all the scores, the negative 20 you gave Biden would cancel out a 20 someone else gave him in a positive sense.
This would probably need to be electronic to auto-calculate things as I'm sure many people might end up doling out 110% or 90% if they don't do the math right.
Could also have a button to auto-divvy if you have no preference, or auto-divvy by party if no preference as long as they're a democrat, etc.... I've not researched all the voting theories out there, but I'm curious if this type of system would work or not?
I'm not sure if IRV/ranked choice will work better, but I know what we have now is a major failure, so I'm excited that we're at least testing and willing to break things to get a system that works for more people.
Say for example you had:
Sanders,
Warren,
Gabbard,
Biden
and you despise biden... but like the other two... you could do something like :
Sanders: 50
Warren: 20
Gabbard: 10
Biden: -20
Then you'd add up all the scores, the negative 20 you gave Biden would cancel out a 20 someone else gave him in a positive sense.
This would probably need to be electronic to auto-calculate things as I'm sure many people might end up doling out 110% or 90% if they don't do the math right.
Could also have a button to auto-divvy if you have no preference, or auto-divvy by party if no preference as long as they're a democrat, etc.... I've not researched all the voting theories out there, but I'm curious if this type of system would work or not?
I'm not sure if IRV/ranked choice will work better, but I know what we have now is a major failure, so I'm excited that we're at least testing and willing to break things to get a system that works for more people.