In this interesting post on electionlawblog.org, Ned Foley proposes a system whereby the Final Five candidates are eliminated one at a time, in a system that he says would not require a constitutional amendment.
In this interesting post on electionlawblog.org, Ned Foley proposes a system whereby the Final Five candidates are eliminated one at a time, in a system that he says would not require a constitutional amendment.
Mr. Foley has a rich imagination.
I think he’s being serious about this but not sure:
“Thus, the Survivor-style presidential election would come down to a choice between [Nikki] Haley and [Gavin Newsom], which is exactly the kind of election most Americans would prefer instead of a Biden-Trump rematch.”
I wonder if he’s heard of Approval Voting.
BETTER YET –
CONDORCET [SINCE 1780S-1780S] = RCV DONE RIGHT.
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STONE AGE OPTION –
PUT THE FIVE AND THEIR TOP GANGSTERS ON A DESERT ISLAND AND SEE WHO SURVIVES ???
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HOW MANY MORON PROFS LOVE MONARCHS , DEATH AND DESTRUCTION ???
https://democracysos.substack.com/p/the-winner-take-all-incentives-that
red-blue map
any red-blue map in 1860 ???
I don’t care for Mr. Foley’s idea.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-legal-news-brief-prosecutors-questioned-witnesses-in-trump-documents-case-about-mar-a-lago-hidden-room-and-locked-closet-001723450.html
TRUMP HIDDEN ROOM — HAS HIS VAMPIRE CASKET ???
ANY SPECIAL EXIT TO HELL AND BAACK ???
Basically, what he is describing is a vast rank-choice voting system across enough participating states that possess a majority of electoral votes. Even if enough states would agree with this, the logistics and technology to make it work could be overwhelming. Transferring votes among states would require them all to use the same, linked voting system. Good luck with that; you can’t get them to adopt a common technology even under the present system. Better to try it first in one state, the way Maine does, and see see how it really works in practice.
GOOD LUCK IN TRYING TO GET ANY 1-10-3 AGREEMENT/COMPACT ELECTION REFORM PASSED IN THE ANTI-DEMOCRACY MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER CONGRESS.
@WZ,
I had a conjecture about a primary system that would work in rounds and would be simple for the voters.
Imagine you have a soccer league with 20 teams. They could play a full round robin over 19 rounds. The teams with the best records could advance to a further competition.
So let’s apply this system to elections. You have 20 candidates and generate a schedule of 19 rounds. This could be conducted over 9-1/2 weeks, two rounds per week. With 20 candidates there are 190 candidate pairs. So each match could take place in two congressional districts.
Round 1 might have a match between Dean Phillips and Vivek Ramaswamey in WI-4 and WI-5. The election is on Tuesday so there is a two-person debate on Sunday in Milwaukee. The campaigns can also focus their advertising and GOTV efforts on the pair of districts. The voters are not faced with an impossible task of ranking 20 candidates. The result is a win for one, and a loss for the other. The actual votes can be stored for statistical purposes, and also for use in tie-breaker circumstances, just as points scored and points allowed is sometimes used.
Round 2 would be on Saturday, with the debate on Thursday. Each candidate would face a different opponent in a different location, and so on.
After 19 rounds in the first stage, the Top 10 could advance to the Second Stage. With 10 candidates, there would be 45 contests over 9 weeks. Each contest could utilize clusters of 9 or 10 congressional districts.
The third stage would have the Top 6 competing in 15 contests over 5 weeks, with each contest in clusters of 29 congressional districts.
The final stage could have the Top 4 competing in 6 contests over three weeks with each contest in groups of 72 districts. These might be based to represent the national population with a mix of rural and urban, eastern and western, southern and northern and so on.
Instead of Survivor, how about Wipeout?
@JR:
The first few rounds of your proposal sound like Condorcet voting: matching pairs of candidates.
Overall, such a system would be difficult to implement if left up to state legislatures. It could only work if some nationall party opted out of the state primary system altogether, and ran to total nomination system on their own. The Libertarians might just be geeky enough to try ii.
I’d be more interested in what Dave Foley has to say about it.
Mr Foley has essentially invited people to think of different voting systems.
That’s a good start.
1780S CONDORCET
1888-1890 PLURALITY PRIMARIES
1973 APPV — APPROVAL VOTING
1990S- RCV
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P.R. 1820S-1840S
@AZ,
What about Ramon Llull?
Survivor, as in scripted and fake. Joe Biden in a nutshell.
Trump and Biden are scripted and fake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull
OLDE GENIUS FOLKS IN EARLY TIMES — ESP BEFORE PRINTING BOOKS
Biden is scripted and fake. Trump is not. It’s why the uniparty, derp state, fake news, glibalist elite axis of evil hates him so much and runs every trick play they can think if against him, failing each time. Because he’s the real deal and actually wins.
And gets people who were disgusted and gave up on voting decades ago off the sidrlines. Just wait til he stops holding back !!!
Gave up or never did vote.
Only elitist morons want “haley ” and gruesome. Nobody wants biden except invaders caravans and desperate commie fascist traitors working for Xi CCP. REAL AMERICANS WANT TRUMP.