>>12232729First up, universal suffrage is utter nonsense and merely assures that the votes of informed and rational people will be more than cancelled out by the votes of mouth breathing idiots and feels.
Therefore one must first earn the right to vote by demonstrating the ability to think rationally, demonstrate critical thinking skills, and demonstrate a working knowledge of civics ( how the government and judiciary work ). The pass rate will be set to 50% of the population. This will be your license to vote and lasts for ten years.
But wait, there's more. There will also be weighted voting, means that the votes of some people will carry more weight than others. There will be a number of criteria for determining weighting. Such as education, experience, skills, age, responsibilities, national and social contributions. For example the vote of a medical doctor with wife and children, aged 50, will carry more weight than that of a plumber, single with no children, aged 25. The doctors vote might be assigned 1000 weight, while the plumbers vote is assigned a weight of 250. By contrast the weight of a single unemployed person with no skills, no work experience, no children or wife, might be assigned a value of just 1. The exact weighting system is open to debate, so feel free to discuss it.
Many more details and caveats, too numerous to mention here. Furthermore this system goes hand in hand with other reforms, such as the abolition of party politics, instead government decisions are made on the basis of categories of issues affecting the nation, and many outcomes are reached by plebiscites
It would be complicated and expensive to implement compared to the existing system.
But do you want your government run by populist morons or do you want it run by people who have to be on the ball?
But this system will never happen, so never mind.
