Not voting should be a valid option in Americas elections.
If neither candidate gets a majority, including non-voters, they both lose and new candidates have to step up to the polls. Rinse and repeat until the citizens actually chose.
It’d fix the ‘pick the one that sucks least’ issue.
Point is still include those that didn’t vote for the major players. If votes for a party are not a majority of all possible voters, that party didn’t win.
Whether you force everyone to come in and tick ‘neither’ or just automatically count non-votes as neither is just semantics imo.
Not voting should be a valid option in Americas elections.
If neither candidate gets a majority, including non-voters, they both lose and new candidates have to step up to the polls. Rinse and repeat until the citizens actually chose.
It’d fix the ‘pick the one that sucks least’ issue.
Nah. Voting should be mandatory with the option of, “none of the above” included. It should also be a public holiday.
That’s… Basically the same thing.
Point is still include those that didn’t vote for the major players. If votes for a party are not a majority of all possible voters, that party didn’t win.
Whether you force everyone to come in and tick ‘neither’ or just automatically count non-votes as neither is just semantics imo.
It’s not semantics, it’s doing the bare minimum to engage in democracy.