It has occurred to me that Agora is perhaps not the paragon of democracy that it should strive to be. There are many examples of excellent democracies out there, including the World's Greatest Democracy, with which we are now all intimately familiar regardless of whether we'd like to be or not. With that in mind, I'd like us to brainstorm some ideas that we could have to improve our systems:
- Elections should last 18 months, in case anything changes after the first 17. - Candidates should be able to run on tickets for different offices. In the event of a tie, the tie should be resolved in such a way as to select candidates from different tickets. - One set of election rules is too much centralized power. We should divide Agora into multiple segments, each with their own distinct rules for election, which are all combined together at the end to pick the officers. Any others? Alexis
