How is this system called? Would it work or are there concerns?

Voters submit ballots with candidates ranked. Each round, a candidate with the most last votes is eliminated (as opposed to the candidate with the least first votes in IRV). No vote counts as last vote.

These days I find myself referencing the ballot bubbles a lot. Mostly when I have to tell my heart broken friends that there will be no revolution. That voting WAS the revolution and if 90 million Americans were too lazy, stubborn, short sighted or misguided to fill in a ballot bubble, they will most certainly never have the motivation to revolt. Hence my question, "What are those little ballot bubbles called?"

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General question as I’m struggling to verify. I have a friend in Indiana who insists she casted a null vote on her absentee ballot — she says she checked the “Null” box and wrote out the candidate name she wanted to vote against instead of voting for a candidate. She says it’s only available on the absentee ballot and that it “cancels out” someone else’s vote for that candidate.

I have never heard of this being a thing — only that a “null vote” was like a protest ballet you submit blank. I can’t find anything online for Indiana or the US in general that says it exists.

So does it? It sounds crazy and like it would be a bigger deal if so.

Feel free to ask questions, or criticize my proposal!

Core Principle: Approval Voting

The system centers on approval voting, where voters can approve multiple candidates they find acceptable. The candidate with the most approvals wins. This eliminates issues like the spoiler effect and strategic voting. Voters can support all candidates they like, making the process simpler and more honest. It also allows new candidates to enter races without harming similar ones, encouraging a diverse political landscape.

Moderation and Consensus

Approval voting naturally favors candidates with broad appeal, promoting moderation. While some might see this as a limitation, it encourages consensus-building and incremental progress, ensuring stability while allowing for significant changes when there's widespread support.

Legislative Branch: A Two-Chamber Approach

Senate: Regional Representation Reimagined

• Structure: One senator per state, but state boundaries are redrawn every 10 years, ensuring equal representation.
• Boundary Criteria: Boundaries are based on population, regional culture, geography, economy, and historical ties.
• Purpose: Senators represent dynamic regional interests, adapting to demographic and cultural shifts.

House of Representatives: Ideas Over Geography

• Closed Party List System:

Voters select parties, not individuals, ensuring proportional representation across the country.

• Primary System:

Optional primaries allow voters to influence party lists, while less engaged voters can focus on evaluating party platforms.

Executive and Judicial Branches: Stability Through Consensus

Appointment Process

• Supermajority Approval: All government positions, like the President and Supreme Court justices, require a supermajority in both houses of Congress to ensure broad support.
• Flexibility in Appointments: Congress can delegate appointment authority and approve individually or in packages. Meanwhile, automatic temporary appointments keep government fuctioning.

Position Security and Turnover

• Appointees are granted tenure with clear removal processes, ensuring stability and limiting political manipulation.

Party System Dynamics

Multi-Party Environment

Approval voting and proportional representation foster a multi-party system. Parties form, dissolve, and adapt based on issues and voter needs. Coalition-building becomes necessary for governance, and new parties can emerge to represent marginalized groups.

Legislative Process and Gridlock

Gridlock is expected and even beneficial, slowing down non-urgent changes while ensuring broad consensus for major reforms. Rapid responses are possible in emergencies through coalition-building.

Party Evolution

Parties are seen as transient entities that evolve with voter needs. They dissolve when obsolete and new ones form, focusing on ideas rather than personalities.

Implementation and Transition

While this system is idealistic rather than immediately practical, it offers several guiding principles:

• Transparent redistricting
• Balance between stability and responsiveness
• Protection of minority views with majority rule for major changes

Philosophical Foundations

Democratic Values

The system promotes moderation, consensus-building, and the protection of minority interests while respecting the majority's will. It also balances stability with the capacity for change.

Practical Governance

Acknowledging political bargaining as a reality, the system channels it constructively. Some gridlock is acceptable for non-essential matters, but cooperation can be achieved in emergencies. It ensures administrative stability alongside ongoing legislative debate.

Long-Term Vision

This system seeks to balance competing interests, allow organic political evolution, and foster genuine representation of voters. While ambitious, it offers a framework for improving democratic governance without compromising stability or minority rights.

Thanks for reading throught it, I would love to hear your ideas about it.

Hi ! I'm part of a political roleplay online (Discord) and we need a way to do instant-runoff votes for the upcoming elections. So I wanted to know if somebody had any idea how to do so.

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Okay so I recently discovered that if i search my name. My full name, address, phone number etc is listed bc of Voterrecords.com how do i remove this?

My next door neighbor volunteers with the County and was ballot counting. He just approached my husband and I and told us he counted and read our ballots. This makes me feel really uncomfortable, we have different political views and I thought it was my voting right for it to be anonymous. I don't really know how to proceed or if there is anything I even could do

Sometimes vote counting gets dragged on for weeks. Has that ever worked out well for a Republican candidate?

I started working in the legal field about a decade ago. Working on the plaintiff's side of personal injury and product liability, I quickly learned that any insurance company, private or public, is entitled to compensation of money spent treating an injury if the injured party is later compensated by a party deemed legally liable for that/those injury(ies). Most people don't know this (as evidenced by the numerous calls we take having to explain 'medical liens' and why anthem or Medicare is taking a good portion of their settlement) and they continue to vote for representation in government that are on the side of insurance profits rather than the injured and suffering. What have others learned in their line of work that most people don't know but that would significantly alter their world view and their voting decisions?

I was just wondering today what America would be like if Carter had won the election instead of Reagan

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Any advice on how avoid paying a fine for not voting. I genuinely was overseas and my dumb ass never knows voting dates, so I forgot to put in a request to vote early. I was oblivious. It’s only $55, but I’d like to at least attempt to avoid it. Any advice on how to word a reply why I didn’t vote?

I'm doing a debate for class and I'm wondering if there are any countries that allow tfws to vote.

I chanced on a voting platform for huge institutions, groups, organisations, schools and the like and wanted to bring members attention to it. : There is a demo video that explains clearly how it works. I think it's great : https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/let_my_vote_count/461697922470

Common influences on the average Voter (USA)

I’ve been doing some very in-depth research for the past 10 minutes and can’t find the answer. Is there anyway to verify who your vote was counted for in the election?

Hello everyone, I just want to know a formula for predicting how many seats a party would get using the parallel voting system (Like in Japan) based on one opinion poll, in which the imaginary parliament has 90 electoral seats and 30 list seats. Thank you.

This is a two part question:

I was a poll worker in the presidential election. Polls closed at 7:30 pm. It was another half hour for us to clean up and for the voting machines to be picked up. I got home by 8:15. I turned on the TV, and they had already declared Donald Trump had won our state. How could they know? There was no time for the ballots to be counted.

My second question. We worked hard to make sure that the ballots were secret. We had the secrecy sleeves and had 3 members from each party working the polls to ensure everything was private. Our state is a "Red" state. It concerns me now because I know several people who voted blue, and are now being threatened. In one instance, a school teacher received a call on her cell. The manager told her that someone had hit her car outside her home She ran outside still carrying her phone. The caller then said "There you are b*tch, I know what you look like now. We are gonna make you pay for not supporting your country". He then hung up. She looked around, but didn't see anyone suspicious. It didn't occur to her till later to wonder how he got her name, her phone number and knew how she voted. I know the precautions we took to protect the rights of all voters, and I assume all precincts did the same. How did they know?

Whenever I type "how to change USA voting" into a search engine then I get a lot of results about things like "How the Electoral College Works", "What Kind of Voting/Election System does the USA Use", "Why <INSERT FAVORED SYSTEM HERE> Is The System We Should Want", and other descriptive-type videos and explanations.

I understand a lot of that. The US election system is, in many ways, broken, and that's a widely-held belief. Obviously, lots of people (red, blue, and other) have a lot of different views of which things, specifically, are wrong and what a better way might be. People compare systems to other systems, countries to other countries, and candidates to other candidates. Generally speaking, there are a lot of systems that would be better in "n" different ways than the current US system. Plenty of reading, watching, and thinking makes it clear to me that every voting system has pros and cons, and those are debated endlessly in a lot of places.

I am not interested in rehashing any of that, and I am not really interested in dragging anyone into or through that kind of discussion.

What I AM interested in is what the process is to change the current US system.

What is the *PROCESS* by which the USA could change its national election system? What are pros and cons of the various processes (not of the voting systems themselves)? What are the collateral effects of the process to implement any particular method? How long would the transition period have to be? Who would be affected and how?

And most importantly, "What can I, as a single person with an introverted personality and near-pathological anxiety around interacting with strangers, do to help move this process along?"

J.D. Vance (Republican)🔴 or Michelle Obama (Democratic)🔵

Before you guys attack me for this let me explain why I fundamentally disagree with the voting system. So I live in Utah, a state that is, has been and always will be Red. Nothing will change that, we lean so far right that no matter how many people send in votes we will still be a red state. With the way the voting system works the only votes that count are the electoral college which means that all the people who voted blue in my state basically get thrown in the trash and don’t count towards anything. If we have a system where a candidate can win the popular vote and still lose the election like Clinton did in 2016 then we have an issue. Now if I lived in a state where there was even a remote chance it could swing either way then obviously I would vote but here I just don’t see a point.