The future of democracy
- For Single-Winner Seats
The plurality system is so bad that (computer simulations indicate) replacing it by range voting would improve society by a comparable or greater amount than the entire invention of democracy in the first place.
It’s easy, implementable, and works with hand-counted, paper ballots. It also provides a more accurate reflection of what people want instead of what they fear.
(links go to the Center for Range Voting)
| Range Voting | “history’s first thoroughly accurate and fair | [example] |
| way of measuring an electorate’s wishes” |
aka the SCORE SYSTEM or 0-99 VOTING, to select winner of an N-candidate election:
- each vote consists of one numerical score from 0 to 99 awarded to each candidate(for example 57,0,34,99 could be one vote in a 4-candidate election;;
- voters may fill entries with “X” if they desire not to express an opinion about that candidate (e.g. 57,0,X,99);
- The candidate with the highest average numeric score wins.
- (Only candidates sufficiently known that at least M/4 of their scores are numeric [with all-X ballots disregarded] are allowed to win; where M is the maximum number of numeric scores got by anyone in the race.)
- For multi-seat elections (proportional representation)