Trump endorsed the campaigns of Cornel West and Jill Stein over the weekend, saying they're spoilers who will help him win in the fall by chipping way at Biden's support.
Even single transferable vote/preferential voting, as used in the Australian lower house and (until recently) the London mayoral election, would be an improvement: you’d get to number your candidates in order of preference, giving 1 to your favourite implausible utopians and/or single-issue advocates, but as long as you put your least-disliked major party ahead of the other one, your vote won’t be wasted.
In fact, one could reduce this even further to two votes: your favourite party and whom you’d want to give your vote to if they don’t win.
I can see it is suitable for electing a single person, as I understand it you tend to get the least disliked instead of the most liked. I’m guessing least disliked is a better protection against extremes, while not compromising democratic values. Whether this is true in practice though I don’t know.
Even single transferable vote/preferential voting, as used in the Australian lower house and (until recently) the London mayoral election, would be an improvement: you’d get to number your candidates in order of preference, giving 1 to your favourite implausible utopians and/or single-issue advocates, but as long as you put your least-disliked major party ahead of the other one, your vote won’t be wasted.
In fact, one could reduce this even further to two votes: your favourite party and whom you’d want to give your vote to if they don’t win.
I can see it is suitable for electing a single person, as I understand it you tend to get the least disliked instead of the most liked. I’m guessing least disliked is a better protection against extremes, while not compromising democratic values. Whether this is true in practice though I don’t know.