11th August 2018, 6:47 AM
A Black Falcon Wrote:I think I did that once here too, so it's fine...
Maybe, and some are sure to complain regardless of what system that isn't our current one we use, so why not try one of the least flawed ones, sure... I wonder if it'd be any harder to get passed.
The only issue is if there's a debate between two alternates. I figure if all the politicians get behind score voting, and that's the option everyone hears about, it shouldn't be any harder to pass than any OTHER major changes to our voting process would be. That said, yeah, we can't even seem to get started eliminating the electoral college, and at the most fundamental level that's the most obviously needed change right now. Personally I would like to see it and score voting done as a package deal, but frankly neither party seems all that interested in any change to the system at all, aside from a few token gestures about it.
I think it will take massive numbers in large protests with this very specific demand to make it happen.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)