It would be great to be able to vote for every candidate in an election instead of only once and you can decide to upvote, downvote, or not vote for any candidate. This way you never “throw away” your vote and extreme/hated candidates can be downvoted so if im not a fan of any candidate but one is particularly awful I can downvote that one and not vote any I don’t like while still making my voice heard that I definitely don’t want this specific candidate

Edit: Combined Approval Voting is what I want and its used by to elect the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee and the Secretary General of the United Nations

Edit 2: You can learn about and try different voting methods in this amazing project https://ncase.me/ballot/

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    9 months ago

    How about if each voter has a fixed number of votes that could be either up or down? And they could be distributed to different candidates, or multiple votes could be given to one candidate if there was one you felt strongly about.