If we’re gonna fuck with it - either go ranked (and use a sensible selection method), or else let people check all the names they like. Most votes wins. That’s called Approval Voting, it gets near-ideal results, and it is genuinely that simple.
This pick-one-guy approach just plain sucks. There’s no reason for it. It’s not even how we did things to begin with! Voters in the 18th century wrote two names for president. Runner-up was vice-president. That changed after congress took thirty-five failed attempts to make the electoral college work. The twelfth amendment, instead of getting rid of that stupid fucking system, just streamlined the presidency and vice-presidency into separate single-winner seats.
If we’re gonna fuck with it - either go ranked (and use a sensible selection method), or else let people check all the names they like. Most votes wins. That’s called Approval Voting, it gets near-ideal results, and it is genuinely that simple.
This pick-one-guy approach just plain sucks. There’s no reason for it. It’s not even how we did things to begin with! Voters in the 18th century wrote two names for president. Runner-up was vice-president. That changed after congress took thirty-five failed attempts to make the electoral college work. The twelfth amendment, instead of getting rid of that stupid fucking system, just streamlined the presidency and vice-presidency into separate single-winner seats.