01-07-2019, 11:08 AM
(01-04-2019, 08:12 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Ranked-choice-voting? Not so sure about that. But, one idea that I think would do much better, would be to do away with campaign ads, and mandate that the candidates face each other in a series of televised debates. Make these debates broadcast to the entire audience of any particular election; National, State, or Local.
I would just about guarantee that when the ads disappear, and the only opportunity people will have to learn about the candidates is to actually listen to them orate, we will get not only a much better informed voting populace, but a lot less knee-jerk voters on election day.
I think that just reinforces party line voting, which is not good for the country as a whole. I'd like to see the party notation removed from the ticket. You can run as a Democrat/Republican, but when the voters are in the booth if they don't know who the people on the ballot are they either opt out (because they obviously aren't qualified to make a choice in this case) or they run the risk of voting for the "bad guys".
