Election Alternative ideas

Lottery with a veto vote

Each month a one region gets a vote on whether to keep their current MP. If they get voted out a lottery is drawn for a new MP.

There would be a limited set of rules for those in the lottery;

- minimum age

- no certain criminal offences.

- live within the lottery region

I like the plan but the numbers are way off. One region per day would mean they have to contest every couple of years. One a month is essentially a job for life.

Okay.

Another problem with one swap per month is this. If all 50 MPs become corrupt and we know it, then every month one new person goes into a corrupt environment, alone, and has to make do on their own for a month. How many of the newbies are not going to be corrupted by the time the next newbie comes along?

Instead I suggest that every five months we swap in a new five. As a round figure. Might even go for six every six months and up the number to 54 to keep things fair.

Single transferable vote 3 or 5 seater with elimated votes to MMP

Single transferable vote is a democratic proportional voting system invented in the UK. It elects members in a large multi seat riding. This means that often the main parties all have a representative in the area and almost every voter has someone from their party to got to if they are pissed off about something. Essentially, this is a "happier voter" system that SMP but the actual MP's are not so happy because they have to work a bit harder. The proportionality depends on the number of seats. Essentially 2/3 of electors are represented in a 3 seater, 3/4 in a 4 seater and 5/6 in a 5 seater. Parties hate the system even though nationwide it is very proportional and it gives the individual voter the choice often between 2 or 3 candidates of the same party. But they love MMP which gives the party much more power. So, I propose a STV MMP variant. 3 seater (easy to count) and gives good local representation, with the "losing votes" (the roughly 1/4 of votes that do not elect anyone) going into a "party pool" that the parties can use to choose an extra 1/4 of the parliament. I think such a system would give people individual choice in their areas and more or less true competition and representation locally while also provide parties with a way to influence things. It would be much fairer and far more proportional than SMP and there is something for everyone in it. So everyone gets the choice of local candidate 1,2,3,4 (far better local representation than SMP and almost decent proportionality by party) and if their vote does not elect anyone directly, it goes into the nationwide pool with party representation. an x or a tick in one of the boxes for party A, B,C D etc. Electing 1/4 of the parliament