[Joakal]

Losing the news is a threat to democracy or great news if you want to bring back rule by the minority. Why? Voters need to be well informed but are increasingly getting less and less alternative sources and eventually none. Some new age media possibilities I had been thinking of:

1) Double politicians (or leftover politicians). Most of English speaking world has left over votes with no representative, have politicians elected with leftover votes. These are paid positions with no power. They will keep the elected politicians in check and can do local journalism. Otherwise those politicians who may get up to 50% of the vote, will stop working for those potential voters by going back to their lives.

2) Citizen news. Government allows citizens to post anything on their personal blogs/columns/newspapers. It has the side effect of being historical because, the government will forever host it vs losing information when the company/individual no longer hosts it for whatever reason. Registration is simply getting username/password from local government with ID.

Or UBI. Journalists gotta eat!

Both of the points require that the government recognise that some information is better than nothing and an essential need if there is have democracy. To do otherwise, is to let evil continue under the veil (Corruption, abuse, etc). Those who would be against 'information needs to be free and widely available', you guessed it, evil.

[cartoonworld]

>1) Double politicians (or leftover politicians). Most of English speaking world has left over votes with no representative, have politicians elected with leftover votes. These are paid positions with no power.

I don't understand what you are proposing here. I think there is a point about constituencies, but I do not parse your logic. What do you refer to by leftover votes?

[Joakal]

Essentially, second place in same constituencies.

The rationale is that people voted to be represented. When the 1st place candidate wins, they have no more incentive to represent the 'losers'.

[cartoonworld]

Ok thanks, I know that generally as Ranked Preference Voting and the more specific proposal of IRV Instant Runoff Voting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

Do you have any more info about this type of voting? I would always be interested in reading more analysis of this topic.

[Joakal]

There's no second place winner for IRV, FPTP, etc. That's where my proposal comes in as a stop gap measure to cover lack of representation while increasing journalism potential.

For better proportional representation, here's this topic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation