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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by nix@merv.news to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

It would be great to be able to vote for every candidate in an election instead of only once and you can decide to upvote, downvote, or not vote for any candidate. This way you never “throw away” your vote and extreme/hated candidates can be downvoted so if im not a fan of any candidate but one is particularly awful I can downvote that one and not vote any I don’t like while still making my voice heard that I definitely don’t want this specific candidate

Edit: Combined Approval Voting is what I want and its used by to elect the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee and the Secretary General of the United Nations

Edit 2: You can learn about and try different voting methods in this amazing project https://ncase.me/ballot/

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[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 10 points 10 months ago

Personally I prefer the idea of ranking each candidate in order of preference, ie "this is my favorite candidate, this is my second-favorite, and so on for all the candidates with enough support to be on the ballot". I feel like it has more granularity than an upvote downvote system would have.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah but there needs to be an "explicitly not this one"-rank, and if you have to also rank republicans in the US, a whole lot of those.

[-] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 0 points 10 months ago

This predictably would just lead to a two party system where you upvote your guy and downvote theirs.

I want the US to be able to vote a third candidate and have it not be an utter throwaway.

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