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Would this make a better voting system in the US?
What if we changed the voting system so that people don't get to "vote" for a candidate at all.
Voters would instead get a list of the current topics and for each topic they choose if they are for or against the topic. Their vote is then cast for the candidate that answered the most questions the same as the voter. This ensures you vote for the candidate that most represents what you want or if you really wanted a specific candidate then you would have to at least know 100% what they stand for. This would also prevent people voting for people based solely on looks, party affiliation, or name recognition.
As far as politician honesty goes, do you think they are honest during their campaign speeches? No. They say what they think will get them elected and would answer the questions the same way.
As far as questions they would be simple "For/Against" questions such as:
Banning Abortions ( ) FOR ( ) AGAINST
Stronger Gun control ( ) FOR ( ) AGAINST
Government Funded Health Care ( ) FOR ( ) AGAINST
Increasing Medicaid ( ) FOR ( ) AGAINST
Increasing military/defense spending ( ) FOR ( ) AGAINST
Closing Southern Borders ( ) FOR ( ) AGAINST
7 Answers
- darrin bLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
No.
That's why you have to vote for candidates who support what's important to you.
- Chewy Ivan 2Lv 71 decade ago
Fine.
Who gets to make-up the questions and answers? I assume it will be multiple choice for this whole thing to work. How do we make sure they don't favor a particular candidate, which answers designed to portray certain answers with a negative connotation and others with a positive one? If if we do make sure they aren't biased, how do we defend against accusations that they are?
Can we just vote by name while we wait for the legal challenges to the impartiality of the test are heard?
- Anonymous1 decade ago
No, because voters might have a perfectly good reason for not wanting to vote for a specific candidate. I might agree with John Smith on every issue, but then he was convicted of rape 20 years ago. So I have no desire to vote for him.
- BobLv 51 decade ago
All I want is for them to get rid of the archaic Electoral College
Yours is not a bad idea though
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- Spock (rhp)Lv 71 decade ago
oh, good -- so how are you going to prevent the candidates from lying left, right, and center about which positions they'll support?
Source(s): grampa - 1 decade ago
Yeah, That would work fine...except politicians lie!!
Your whole thought process assumes honesty.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
THIS IS CALLED DIRECT DEMOCRACY!
look it up there is some groups that want this and try and help them as much as you can!
This is the fullest form of true democracy!
