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I don't remember who said it, but I loved the idea of an extra option on the ballot for a redo. If it gets a big enough percentage, you redo the election with new candidates and the old ones can't be candidates ever again.

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The problem with that is everyone might vote for it repeatedly, making more and more politicians ineligible. You could end up with 10 or 20 elections in one year and you wouldn't be able to repeal the rules without a government in place.

No because voters eventually get tired of it, because they want a functioning government.

Americans will do anything to be different. Christ! This is worse than the…better voting systems that are already battle-tested by other countries.

The actual outcomes of those different voting systems is still a dominant US that is increasingly leaving the rest of the Western world behind.

So maybe we should be learning from them?

Ah yes, the most successful and long lasting democracy in recorded history is doing things wrong. We should ask all those EU countries that collect 60% effective tax rates and try to scrape by.

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