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Using the "Am I x or not" paradigm,
simply
allow people with enough time on their
hands to repeatedly click through sets of
photographs of all the parliamentary
candidates, the most appealing
photographs forming the winning seat in
each case. The overall winner of the
"have
I won the
general election or not"
mechanism is very definitely the one that
the public chose.
PS: A related version might also work
with a restricted voting eligibility for "Am
I pope or not?"
Pope or nope
http://popeornope.nfshost.com/index.pl
Unofficial, but baked. [Extreme Tomato, May 25 2005]
Warren Harding
http://en.wikipedia...i/Warren_G._Harding
(According to Malcom Gladwell) most 'presidential-looking' and worst US president. [hippo, May 10 2007]
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Can't we just point lasers at them and have
done with it? |
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Lasers, guns, pitchforks. Whatever works. |
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An excellent idea, as this would also
show who was the furthest away from
being chosen as Prime Minister - the
"anti-PM", perhaps, who should be kept
well away from the real PM to avoid
dangerous explosions. |
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I'm not sure that the results would be any different, to be honest. |
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I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 'the most appealing photographs forming the winning seat in each case'. If you mean whoever is the best looking, then that means no canidate would win. Or at least in America no canidate would win. |
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I thought that we already had this system.
A more revolutionary approach would be if you never got to see the candidate at all...ah, hang on. We've already got that system as well, haven't we! |
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An adaptation would be to cause random, incremental modificationsof the photo, and at each point voters would choose among a group of 5-10 incrementally modified photographs,plus the original. The winnder would then itself be modified, and so on. The phto would evolve towards presidential perfection. There would be a point at which the original would consistently win over any of its modifications. The feds would then seek to find the person whom looks most like that picture,and make him or her president. |
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The general election could be played out using YouTube voting. |
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I think this idea stems from Scott Adams' assertion that the US presidential election is always won by the guy with the best hair. |
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"Priority Mail for the Addressee Only. Do
Not Discard This Envelope - You May
Already Be This Month's Prize Minister." |
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