How Should Political Situations Be Classified In Order To Pick The Locally Best Voting System For Each Situation?
Published on December 31, 2025 10:49 PM GMTEpistemic Status: I'm confused! Let's go shopping! (...for new political systems <3)I want to write an essay about the actually best voting system, but before I do that I want to get clear on what the desiderata should even naturally or properly or wisely be...Participation?Sometimes it is illegal to not vote. You could create a two day holiday, and have 24 hour emergency workers do shifts but have some time off to go in and be fingerprinted and register their preferences and so on. There could be free money at the polling station for voting, and voting assistants hunting down the people who haven't voted yet.If you have this system, then "refusing to vote" can never happen.But also, certain voting systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_criterion