Peh said:
Yeah, being a male would be the first solution to all our problems /s I don't know. One possibility would be to let every voter take a exam on the goals off each party you want to vote and see if you actually do understand what you are voting for. Because I have the feeling that some people did not informed themself before voting. Hence why they regret it. But that would be kind of ridiculous and impossible to implement. I really don't know. It just gets on my nerves when I see people regretting shortly after voting and this tells me, that these people shouldn't had the right to vote in the first place, because they are actually ignorant by the damage they can cause. |
I've actually thought about the idea of putting the top 5 or so most important policies of the competiting candidates on the ballots instead of their names. That way, you vote for the five positions you want to see taken and each one of those counts as a vote towards a certain candidate. So if you vote favoring Trump on 3 policies and Clinton on 2 policies, Trump would get 3 "votes" and Clinton would get 2. I'm sure there are flaws with this, but I think it is at least interesting to think about.
Anyways, I agree with you in theory. The only way to get democracy to work is by having an informed populace. However, once you start saying "you cant vote", you run a serious risk of excluding people. Especially minority voters with low education. Thats why we need to focus on improving our education systems to increase the education of the populace instead of going for the exclusion route.
I also think changing to a ranked voting system would do a bit to mitigate the "I regret voting for Gary Johnson because Trump won" regrets and just be a great change in general.
