lemmyknow@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agoHow different do you reckon the world would be if, instead of voting someone in, elections were about voting everyone else off until one stands victorious?message-squaremessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down13
arrow-up160arrow-down1message-squareHow different do you reckon the world would be if, instead of voting someone in, elections were about voting everyone else off until one stands victorious?lemmyknow@lemmy.today to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up27·2 days agoThere is a system that does exactly this, everyone puts the candidates in their preferred order, and a computer just does the “rounds”. Probably the best way ever, because you end up with the least disliked choice. IIRC. We closed places at work with a system like this, went very well.
minus-squareBaron Von J@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 days agoBut that’s still voting for your preferred candidates. The OPs proposal is like doing tribal council from the Survivor TV show but for our government.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoNo, you submit an ordered list from most preferred to least preferred. The computer then calculates how the TV show would have ejected them one after another. Of course, you wouldn’t get influenced by the TV show etc.
minus-squareyermaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days ago reality TV style You have to play the dead grandma card at exactly the right moment.
There is a system that does exactly this, everyone puts the candidates in their preferred order, and a computer just does the “rounds”.
Probably the best way ever, because you end up with the least disliked choice. IIRC. We closed places at work with a system like this, went very well.
But that’s still voting for your preferred candidates. The OPs proposal is like doing tribal council from the Survivor TV show but for our government.
No, you submit an ordered list from most preferred to least preferred. The computer then calculates how the TV show would have ejected them one after another.
Of course, you wouldn’t get influenced by the TV show etc.
You have to play the dead grandma card at exactly the right moment.