The Fulcrum's Democracy Madness - competition of ideas for elections (US)

[lpetrich]

Ranked choice voting wins tournament to pick most important democracy reform - FairVote

Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) won the Fulcrum’s Democracy Madness finals. The Fulcrum’s March Madness style tournament called Democracy Madness asked its readers to evaluate 64 proposed democracy reforms and whittle the list down in a series of one-on-one match ups over two months of voting. The reforms spanned a wide range of disciplines, from changes in the legislative process to campaign finance regulations.

Ranked-choice voting wins Democracy Madness tournament - The Fulcrum

Unfortunately, that site does not give a good overview of all the 64 possibilities.

Democracy Madness reaches the Final Four - The Fulcrum

• Ranked-choice voting
• Citizens United repeal
• Popular vote compact
• Always paper ballots

The options are paired off, and the winners are

• Ranked-choice voting
• Popular vote compact

In the final vote, we get:

• Ranked-choice voting

I've arranged the options so that the top of each pair is the winner.

The four options here are the winners of four "regions": Voting, Money in Politics, Elections and the Best of the Rest.

 

[lpetrich]

Money in Politics: Vote now for the most important campaign finance reforms - The Fulcrum

• Citizens United repeal
• Total public financing
• Public campaign subsidies
• Public campaign vouchers
• "Revolving door" slowdown
• "Bundling" limits
• Lobbyist registrations
• Fundraising on-the-job curbs
• "Dark money" disclosure
• FEC overhaul
• Lobbyist donation curbs
• Foreign donation curbs
• Online ad disclosure
• Instant campaign disclosure
• Presidential tax disclosure
• Donor disclosure expansion

then

• Citizens United repeal
• Public campaign subsidies
• "Revolving door" slowdown
• Lobbyist registrations
• "Dark money" disclosure
• Lobbyist donation curbs
• Online ad disclosure
• Presidential tax disclosure

then

• Citizens United repeal
• "Revolving door" slowdown
• "Dark money" disclosure
• Online ad disclosure

then

• Citizens United repeal
• "Dark money" disclosure

then

• Citizens United repeal

 

[lpetrich]

Elections: Our Elections 'region' last dance features 2 princesses - The Fulcrum

• Popular vote compact
• Voting at 16
• Open primaries
• Shifted local elections
• Redistricting commissions
• Judgeships on merit
• Congressional term limits
• Expanded Supreme Court
• Multimember electoral districts
• Proportional electoral votes
• Popular vote for president
• Online voting
• Supreme Court term limits
• Open presidential debates
• Top-two primaries
• Candidates by petition

then

• Popular vote compact
• Open primaries
• Redistricting commissions
• Congressional term limits
• Multimember electoral districts
• Popular vote for president
• Supreme Court term limits
• Top-two primaries

then

• Popular vote compact
• Redistricting commissions
• Multimember electoral districts
• Supreme Court term limits

then

• Popular vote compact
• Multimember electoral districts

then

• Popular vote compact

 

[lpetrich]

Voting: Regional final: Voting Rights Act vs. ranked-choice voting - The Fulcrum

• Ranked-choice voting
• Ballot harvesting
• Straight-ticket ban
• Straight-ticket voting
• Voting at home
• "Purging" restrictions
• STAR voting
• Approval voting
• New Voting Rights Act
• Negative voting
• Early voting
• Same-day registration
• Automatic registration
• Signature elimination
• Felon voting rights
• Online registration

then

• Ranked-choice voting
• Straight-ticket ban
• Voting at home
• STAR voting
• New Voting Rights Act
• Early voting
• Automatic registration
• Felon voting rights

then

• Ranked-choice voting
• Voting at home
• New Voting Rights Act
• Automatic registration

then

• Ranked-choice voting
• New Voting Rights Act

then

• Ranked-choice voting

 

[lpetrich]

Best of the Rest: Top seeds advance to 'Best of the Rest' Elite Eight - The Fulcrum

• Always paper ballots
• Two-year Federal budgets
• Post-election audits
• Voting-equipment standards
• Supreme Court ethics code
• No more Senate filibuster
• DC statehood
• Better Hill ethics rules
• Federal election funding
• Earmark revival
• Congress in DC more
• Congressional pay raise
• More civics education
• Mandatory public service
• More Congressional capacity
• A bipartisan House Speaker

then

• Always paper ballots
• Post-election audits
• Supreme Court ethics code
• DC statehood
• Federal election funding
• Congress in DC more
• More civics education
• More Congressional capacity

then

• Always paper ballots
• Supreme Court ethics code
• Federal election funding
• More civics education

then

• Always paper ballots
• Federal election funding

then

• Always paper ballots

 

[Valjean]

I like a lot of these, but those who achieved power and influence through the status quo see the goals of this movement as a threat, and they have the power and influence to undermine it.