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 did have such low approval #s, 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 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, having demonstrated accuracy on policy oriented polling questions (Gallup, Rasmussen, Pew archives), can make a policy plan and then find the candidates.
Here's an anticipation of and suggestions for their approach:
- $500(?) maximum monthly rental housing federal subsidy loans
- 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 $11 tril. annual fed, state and local spending and regs out of $29T of income (instead of current 30% taxes, 38% spending plus 16% (?) indirect, or $15T annual govt related costs)
- Needs test, loan instead of grant, use private options, in person verification, lower cost medical practitioners first, require some type of work, if able, for most programs, freeze overall increases, 5 year government $ and services eligibility wait for immigrants, devolve as much as possible to states, update program administration technologies, representative sample of citizens budget oversight
- 20% mfg tax cut
- Increased licensing of non M.D.s
- Optional direct care loans, including dental and counseling
- Allow purchase of telehealth and insurance outside of home state
- Tax credit or voucher for high deductible insurance
- Patient/parent and practitioner freedom in prevention and healing approaches
- Hospital patient choice between conventional or integrative protocols where possible
- 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 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 restrictions on cannabis
- Faster, simpler option for legal system cases
- I.D., citizenship, in person, signature, paper backups for voting
- Maintain existing progressive income taxation (CBO)
- Simplified, progressive, optional tax code
- 1% annual asset tax over $50(?) million, 2% over $1B(?), 3% over $10B(?), debt devoted
- Tax incentives for increased small apartment supply
- 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 representative citi zen samples on.. peace??
* Empty ballots equal more voter freedom, no early committed primary votes, less party power, a more level $$ and media playing field, less need for $$ contributions 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 and others to identify a preferred 3rd, D or R candidate to run.
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