(January 17, 2022 at 9:30 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(January 17, 2022 at 5:51 pm)Spongebob Wrote: I think there's already a good solution to the first two questions, ranked voting. Some states are doing this and I believe it is working well. You get three votes, so you vote for your number 1, 2, and 3 person you would like to see. No more "all in" votes, so the most outrageous candidate doesn't have as much of an advantage.
That's really interesting. And a very good solution to the "crazy" problem that has infectected democracy over the last decade or so. I think the founders were a bit too wary of mob rule, personally. But, ultimately, especially taking modern politics into account... I'd have to say their fears weren't completely unfounded.
The big problem with having rankings is that there is NO WAY to reasonably form a collective ranking from individual rankings that satisfies certain very minimal requirements. This is a mathematical result.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arrows-theorem/
