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Re:The Case for Abolishing Elections by basch on Sunday November 13, 2022 @09:48AM (#33583527)
Regardless of how you make the election rules, if everybody is basing their vote on; 1) hating the other team more 2) thinking the other individual candidate is an all time bad candidate that must be stopped at any cost 3) doing what the tv commercials told them to do 4) building their political views based on what the entertainment news channel wants them to believe 5) mixed with foreign nation state propaganda masquerading as organic individual opinion

you still end up with what amounts to an uninformed electorate. You've figured out how to count an uninformed opinion in a better way. And maybe eliminated number 2 and some of 1 from being a complete problem, but unpopular controversial people will still manage to drive the conversation.

Re:The Case for Abolishing Elections by dragonwriter on Sunday November 13, 2022 @01:48PM (#33586064)
> Regardless of how you make the election rules, if everybody is basing their vote on; 1) hating the other team more 2) thinking the other individual candidate is an all time bad candidate that must be stopped at any cost

Both of these are particularly incentivized in systems with FPTP and the duopoly it tends towards. So, electoral rules do matter here.