The 2 party system is single voting round based. 2 rounds would usually be needed for 3 candidates, 3 rounds for 4, etc.
Both presidential nominees were so unpalatable, a 3rd candidate could have run and avoided being a spoiler if they pulled votes roughly equally from the other 2, besides getting more non voters to turn out.
Trump was at 48% favorable -Gallup
Democrats ("people rule") average just 12% out of 100 on NTU Rates, the most comprehensive fiscal rating on bill votes, pushing for more centralized govt power- govocracy..
but usually, more than 1 round is needed to safely accommodate more than 2 candidates.
Representative samples of citizens, including independents, are actually accurate on most policy oriented polling questions (Gallup, Rasmussen, Pew archives). New samples can identified, asked to list their policy preferences, then candidates can be found to represent that group's plan.
Here's an anticipation of and suggestions for their approach:
- Minimum 5 elimination rounds 'ranked choice' voting
- No names on the ballot, no primaries*
- Reduce all federal and state office terms from 6 and 4 years to 3 and 2
- All officeholders recallable after 1 year with a polls based, non signature election triggering process
- 28% taxes and spending plus 12% regulatory/indirect govt costs on avg income, or $12 tril. annual fed, state and local spending and regs out of $30T of income (instead of current 30% taxes, 38% spending plus 16% (?) indirect, or $15.5T annual govt related costs)
- Cut waste, needs test, possible work requirement, loans before grants, choice based programs, private options, lower cost medical practitioners, freeze increases in certain areas, in person verification, 5-10 year program eligibility wait for immigrants, devolve as much as possible to states, update administration technologies, Article 5 amendment, fiscal commission, representative sample of citizens budget oversight, etc.
- Tax and regulatory incentives for entry level housing supply
- Rental housing loans- $400(?) monthly avg subsidies
- 20% mfg tax cut
- Increased licensing, scope of practice of non M.D.s, add to gov/private insurance
- Allow telehealth and insurance outside of home state
- Optional direct care loans, including dental and counseling
- Replace tax deduction with credit/voucher for usually high deductible insurance, any age
- Simplified Medicare option with greater deductible, copay, credit/loan and protocol choices, asset included needs test, any age
- End mandated sign up for Medicare and penalties
- Patient and practitioner freedom in prevention and healing approaches, including hospitals
- Replace oil and vehicle tax deductions with lower tax rates, at least within a 2nd tax code option
- Possible tax creating $4/gallon, lower taxes in other areas
- Environmental tax on subsidized imports
- Drill in the 1002 area of Alaska's ANWR
- Optional $10k avg annual K-12 tax credit or voucher, $12k loan for college
- Child care loans, increased adoption assistance
- Voter determined allowable # of weeks for abortion
- Remove Medicaid/insurance coverage for circumcisions
- Higher standard for corporal punishment
- Remove subsidies and tax preferences for livestock production for slaughter
- Neighborhood partnership on police staffing, hiring and firing
- Keep violent people in jail
- Background, mental health check, continual responsibilities for gun ownership
- Defense of self and others upheld in more states
- Remove federal, state restrictions on cannabis
- Faster, simpler option for legal system cases
- I.D., citizenship, in person, signature, paper backups for voting
- Maintain existing progressive federal taxation (CBO)
- Simplified, progressive, optional tax code
- 1% annual asset tax over $50(?) million, 2% over $1B(?), 3% over $10B(?), debt devoted
- Federal Reserve money supply limits
- Regulatory simplification
- Tech/biometric data anonymized unless opted into or police use
- Reduced concentration in media/tech industries
- Increased biotech, A.I. oversight, with representative citizen sample involvement
- Increased citizen oversight of govt agencies
- Increased intl poverty spending
- Process and policy focused media, with citizen samples, online and weekly t.v.
- Intl dialogues with citi zen samples from each country on.. peace??
* Empty ballots equal more voter freedom, no early committed primary votes, less party power, less need for $$ contributions, a more level $$ and media playing field and less negative targeting by media. No primaries mean shorter election seasons, likely increasing the openness to shorter office terms and/or simple recall options, equaling more accountability and even less market value/$$ incentive per campaign.
Prior to election reform, representative samples can rank interested candidates in polls to identify a preferred 3rd candidate to run in this single round system.. but even that will be easier with a policy plan first.
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