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| | 1. Candidates run for Senator Nearly impossible to get 5 Senators elected by a majority on the first ballot this way. What we will end up having is #7 (see below). 2. Candidates run randomly opposed It could put the two most popular candidates against each other while letting the least popular candidate slide into a position unopposed. 3. Candidates run for specific seats Announcing a campaign becomes a strategy as the timing becomes a factor. 4. Candidates run as parties The only way that it works is if the winning party has 5 candidates, other wise we have as many or more run off polls then any other option. Anyone think voting in a single party is a good thing? 5. Vote for Composition The only way to get the 5 most popular candidates into the Senate on the first ballot. It has the highest possibility for voter confusion. The poll options would start at 6 for 6 candidates and increase exponentially from there. 6. Vote for Composition by PM Ballot This should not even be an option. I would prefer any other option ahead of this. Voting by PM removes all concept of the anonymous secret ballot. 7. Have a poll for each Senate seat, sequentially. At 72 hours per poll, excluding weekends, we are looking at 3 weeks. The good side is that we get the most popular candidates. 8. Have one poll for each candidate with one tick box in the poll; basically a confidence/no-confidence poll. The 'thumbs up/thumbs down' for each candidate works ideally if each voter only gives a thumbs up to 5 candidates. That is difficult to enforce. The voter census thread is useful for enforcement but can reduce the concept of the anonymous secret ballot for the first few voters. My priorities for the election would be (1) fair elections (2) anonymous voting (3) getting it done on the first ballot (4) getting the most popular candidates into office. My intent with these priorities is that the voters and citizens are most important and there should be no action that would lead to alienation of the voters. Respect to the candidates needs to be considered but shouldn't be done to the detriment of the voters. |
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| 1. Candidates run for Senator - in this option, all candidates are listed in a single poll, and the top 5 are made Senator. The problem that has been raised with this one is due to the fairly low number of Citizens the DGame has at this moment - we may end up with only two or three Senators actually getting votes. If that should happen, there should be "tie breaker" elections for the other candidates, which prolongs the process. In my opinion, however, this is the most democratic system.
This discussion is silly. The poll outcome is plain for all to see, so if Senators 2, 4, and 7 have a clear majority I'm not going to vote for any of them, am I? I'll vote for another candidate entirely... |
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