Seems odd that if you win by 0.001% that’s treated the same as if you win by 50%. “You barely won, here’s the same mandate as someone who won soundly”
Probably a bad idea, but there’s an idea in there that isn’t dumb.
Seems odd that if you win by 0.001% that’s treated the same as if you win by 50%. “You barely won, here’s the same mandate as someone who won soundly”
Probably a bad idea, but there’s an idea in there that isn’t dumb.
No, it’d just be giving more incentives for politicians to lie, cheat and steal. If getting a full 100% of the votes means you get to reign for life like a monarch, then the amount of misinformation, buoyed by an industry made infamous by Cambridge Analytica, and aided by PR, Ad agencies, and Facebook, would explode. If that’s not enough, politicians can just outright cheat and steal, prevent supporters of their opponent from voting, pervert the existing laws to one’s ends, or downright steal the ballot boxes (and tamper with the votes or how they are counted).
It’d magnify the worst of current politics by giving politicians a reward for playing dirty.