Too many people.
How many states were separately rigged in 2020?
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I assume Arizona is on your list. This guy voted for trump in 2020.
I believe we should establish a government by experts voted and controlled by a parliament consisting out of winners of a lottery wich contains all adult citizens which is as representative as possible. The politicians we get with our current system are power hungry, selfish idiots, owned by companies.
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This is my version of perfect government.
Phase 1
On every election, a non-political group of teachers is tasked with coming up with a general knowledge test. The subject material is varied, including mathematics, languages, history, geography, astronomy, physics, cooking, technology, medicine, problem-solving, etc. The questions and answers are published six months before the election.
For politicians, the passing mark is set to whatever score the top 20% is expected to achieve. Every politician must take the test, and if they score lower than the top 20%, they aren’t allowed to run for office.
For voters, there is no passing mark. Your score on the test is how many votes you get. Score 100, you get 100 votes. Score 10, you get 10 votes. Don’t take the test, you get zero votes.
Voting is not mandatory. If you don’t care enough to vote. Stay at home. We only want the votes of people who care enough to vote.
Phase 2
The same non-political group of teachers who created the first test is tasked with creating a questionnaire identifying the major issues facing the electorate at this moment. The answers are simple multiple choice. Each candidate for office must select one of the multiple choice answers for each question. They don’t get to write a paragraph explaining their nuances.
On voting day, you don’t vote for a candidate. You take the same questionnaire and you assign a number from 1 to 10 to each question indicating how important you consider this issue. The system then takes your questionnaire and the weighting you gave each issue, and chooses the best candidate that matches your choices on the questionnaire. This isn’t a complex algorithm. It is simple arithmetic. All your votes (however many you got on the test) go to that candidate. In cases of a tie, your votes are split among the matching candidates.
Phase 3
All candidates are given a number and are forbidden from disclosing their names to the public before, during or after their term in office. They must serve totally anonymously. They can tell their friends they work for the government, but they can’t say what they do for the government. The press may cover all the candidates, but may not say their names. “Defense Secretary 315 will be visiting the UK on Monday”. They must also blur out the politician’s face. This will get rid of the power hungry glory seekers and attention whores.
Government officials will receive minimum wage and no pension. No candidate may serve more than one term in office.
Phase 4
While serving their term, elected officials are constantly graded by the public and by the people working under them to decide if they need to be fired. If they are judged incompetent on the job, they are replaced immediately with the next highest scoring willing candidate.
Elected officials are also judged on their performance based on the questionnaire they filled in. If they said they are pro-abortion and vote against abortion, they’re gone. If they said they’re for gun rights but they vote to confiscate guns, they’re gone.
Phase 5
All government legislation must, by law, come with a measuring system to determine its success. If you implement a tax cut hoping it will create jobs, an unrelated branch of government must at the same time create a set of measurements to judge the tax cut’s success at creating jobs. If you mandate the use of daytime headlights on cars to lower accidents, an unrelated branch of government must come up with a measuring system to determine if accidents were truly reduced. And so on. If your legislation fails to achieve its stated goal, it is automatically repealed.
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This isn’t perfect but it’s better by far than what we have. There will be a million details to sort out. The number of candidates may need to be artificially limited and the system may require several run-offs with more detailed questionnaires to sift through the ties, and so on. I’d take it over any government system I see on Earth today, though. Trump would not only never get elected under such a system, he would never qualify to run.
I would prefer the people govern but you’d make a great politician. From what I read, phase 4 would be a great place to start. I’d like to fire them all.
took you a while even after i hinted towards it lol but yes a lottery would be a better way than current election wastes, but i still prefer my eating contest-suggestion since that comes with entertainment and is profitable for all involved
What are you talking about, Nico?
He said the election is over and groceries are going down in supermarkets. Let’s eat!
lol wow you are getting old and forgetful, dont worry about it, dear
i was referring to this:
Oh that. I thought you speak of a worthwhile post of yours regarding that matter.
indeed i did!
Kari Lake lost again. That was pretty much the only thing decent that happened in politics.
Ruben Gallego should probably run for President in 2028 with Klobuchar. He crushed Lake with Latinos.
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In NH, we did blue federal and red state which we always do.
I didn’t know we even had a ballot question.
Should our judges be able to work until 75? They currently can until 70. I voted no. It failed. They have to retire by 70.
Massachusetts had a bunch of ballot questions.
I read up on your state questions? Care to share how you voted?
I only work in Massachusetts, so couldn’t vote on them.
How would you have voted?
I looked. I realize you were asking Dan but I will answer too because I don’t want to sleep yet.
Auditing? Yes.
MCAS exam? I have no idea.
Uber unions? No.
Psychedelics? No.
Minimum wage for tipped workers? No.
I only disagreed with the results on Uber unions.
Does that mean you got everything else right?