(05-28-2025, 10:23 AM)Jag149 Wrote:

(05-28-2025, 09:51 AM)mikesez Wrote:  It's still one person one vote, it's just every vote can express a first preference, second preference, etc. 

If you really think it should be one person, one mark per ballot per race, that is first past the post, and nothing will change. 

The only voting system besides first past the post that only lets voters make one mark per ballot is the Israeli voting system. Where you just vote for a party instead of a candidate. That barely works in tiny Israel. It would be worse here.

Also, you're getting distracted.  Felons aren't the ones choosing candidates who only do theatrics and never compromise. Non citizens are a separate problem.

The method of voting is not the issue. I showed 3 things that would change things a lot. No reason to "fix" something that basic, simple and is not broken. The one vote one person is not broken. Why are you so intent upon fixing something not broken. I now suspect you of another agenda.

Non- citizens who are caught voting need to immediately be deported.

Your three things were, (a) all unused campaign funds will be kept by the government, (b) all candidates must disclose party ID, © each party only gets one candidate with no publicly funded primary for any candidate.

(a) Winning candidates today typically don't have significant unused funds, and if this were a rule the main thing that would change is there would be much more expensive galas right at the end.
(b) This is typically the case in Florida already, and in the areas where it isn't the case, not much changes.
(C ) All that's going to do is create lots of independent or small party candidates, and the main winning strategy will be to flood the zone with clones of your opponent to split your opponent's vote. With no change to Presidential primaries across the 50 states, the two main parties will still have an advantage for a little while, but for congressional races, that would become irrelevant fairly quickly. If joining a party doesn't give you access to a taxpayer subsidized primary, candidates simply won't join a party. You may welcome a new plethora of independent candidates, and to an extent I do too, but the winning candidate isn't going to be the one voters agree with most. It's going to be the one who does the best job winning the clone wars. There is a reason all 50 states, each acting on their own, eventually built a publicly funded partisan primary system, and if you get rid of it with out making any other change, you will find that out quickly.

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