Reason.com Commentary on Approve/Approve/Disapprove Voting

Here is a commentary written by Roy Minet, a long-time friend of mine and member of the Libertarian Party from Pennsylvania, who advocates for an electoral system change that would allow voters to cast votes of approval for up to two candidates and up to one vote of disapproval for a candidate in an election. The disapprove votes would be subtracted from the approve votes for each candidate, and the candidate with the highest net approval vote total would win. If no candidate got a net positive vote total, the election would be redone with other candidates on the ballot.

While I don’t think this article will end the debate about differing voting reforms, and Minet admits that there cannot be a “perfect” voting system, I have heard many other people express the desire to allow negative votes for political candidates. It makes for an interesting read.


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Reason.com Commentary on Approve/Approve/Disapprove Voting — 28 Comments

  1. They clearly overdubbed parts of the audio and cut the time on some of the pauses, and it still comes off crappy. Not as bad as the debate, but it’s not live either.

  2. The open shirt collar and spray tan are precious. He forgot the shades. Backwards baseball cap and gold chains next?

  3. Come on, man. He needs to sing, rap, dribble a basketball, and literally drop the Mic.

  4. I don’t think he can sing. I’ll be shocked if he can rap. I’m sure he dribbles, but it ain’t a basketball. I don’t think dropping a microphone would help him right now.

  5. Skinhead Stephen Miller is ripping the big guy and Willie Brown’s ho new ones on Fox.

  6. Is resident Biden trying to siphon off the retard party votes?

  7. Just think about that idea. The losing candidate in any two candidate election would likely have no votes.

  8. Beijing Biden is going to take America to a whole new level? Like, hiding heads in shame?

  9. Now, now, petulant children, consider it as a purely academic thought experiment. It is but one of many different conceivable models, and, like most of the less bad ones, has its pros and cons. But even though it appeared in Reason, there’s still no need to narrow-mindedly shoot it down without even considering its merits.

  10. I miss the Stephanopoulos interview, anyone to have the link? Thanks in the advanced!

  11. Sorry, we don’t get this in where I am live. Do you please have URL?

  12. You must to have a USA tv provider. Anything on the YouTube or something of the similar nature?

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