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by londons_explore 1337 days ago
It would be nice if there was a way for the people to request an election anytime.

For example... Anyone can gather 100 signatures asking for an election. Then the electoral commission will select 1000 people at random from the electoral register and ask them "Should the UK hold an immediate election?". And then if the majority of those responding say yes, then an election happens.

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A method similar to that should certainly be introduced for triggering recall elections of individual MPs (possibly with a condition that the expense of the by-election be covered by crowd-funding).

To your point, though, there is "a way for the people to request an election anytime", and it has been used already, to little effect:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/when-next-general-e...

I am sure such system would never be abused or tempered with even.

Queue in gerrymandering.

I don't really see how it can be gamed...

The worst that can happen is nuisance elections.