Better do it like the old Greeks: they voted twice. Once to get someone into office, and once at the end of the term whether to banish him or not.
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That’s how instant runoff voting works (assuming you’re still starting with a small list of candidates).
Elections would take 10,000 years.
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Depending on the voting system, that's basically just a rhetorical reframing.
I guess it would lead to politicians being even more sycophantic before elections to not exhibit any possible trait that could be seen as negative.
Not a good system, I think.
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Or just let them compete on an island which gets smaller and smaller until there's just one person standing!
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Soet of like ranked cboice, which Australia uses.
And put them all in the Big Brother house and film them 24/7.
Would you get the least worst candidate? I would try it.
Another scheme is random selection of a citizen, like jury duty. You have professional civil servants but the leader is randomly selected and if the leader is doing badly it triggers a new selection.
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Do we send the candidates off to a desert island to survive for a couple weeks while this is happening?
My solution to politics: if 50,000 people vote that we should execute you, we execute you. Pretty soon there would be no politicians left.
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Honestly with how much of a reality show the US already is, I'm surprised this hasn't been tried and televised lol
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