Post by Québécia on Jul 29, 2022 20:07:43 GMT
Good afternoon.
Quebecia has a suggestion for the Pangaea Federation. In the Constitution of Quebecia, a motion can only pass if it receives the vote in favor of 75% of its population; not by a majority of the votes themselves.
For example, with the current system of the federation, the population is 50, but only 10 people vote. Of these, 7 are in favor, 3 in opposition. So the motion passes by a majority of the votes cast, but not by a majority of the population.
In Quebecia, if the population is 50, a motion can only pass if 37+ citizens vote in favor (75%). If there are only 10 votes, even if they are all in favor, the motion cannot pass, because it has not been approved by the majority of the population.
Why ask for 75% approval of the population, not votes? If we go back to the first example, where only 10 people out of 50 voted, and out of that 10, 7 said yes and 3 said no, and the motion is approved, that means that any corrupt minority element can declare a motion in their favor, ask only 7 citizens on their side, out of the 50, to vote, and can manipulate the rest of the population not to vote (with excuses such as "voting is useless"), and the motion will be approved by a majority of the vote, and not by the majority of the population itself.
In our opinion, such a voting system will quickly become ineffective as the Federation grows, because such a voting system can ultimately be used to bypass the majority.
With Quebecia's suggestion that the motion can only pass if only 75% of the population votes in favor, the system will be much less likely to be corrupted.
Of course, this is only a suggestion on our part.
Sincerely,
Québécia
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Quebecia has a suggestion for the Pangaea Federation. In the Constitution of Quebecia, a motion can only pass if it receives the vote in favor of 75% of its population; not by a majority of the votes themselves.
For example, with the current system of the federation, the population is 50, but only 10 people vote. Of these, 7 are in favor, 3 in opposition. So the motion passes by a majority of the votes cast, but not by a majority of the population.
In Quebecia, if the population is 50, a motion can only pass if 37+ citizens vote in favor (75%). If there are only 10 votes, even if they are all in favor, the motion cannot pass, because it has not been approved by the majority of the population.
Why ask for 75% approval of the population, not votes? If we go back to the first example, where only 10 people out of 50 voted, and out of that 10, 7 said yes and 3 said no, and the motion is approved, that means that any corrupt minority element can declare a motion in their favor, ask only 7 citizens on their side, out of the 50, to vote, and can manipulate the rest of the population not to vote (with excuses such as "voting is useless"), and the motion will be approved by a majority of the vote, and not by the majority of the population itself.
In our opinion, such a voting system will quickly become ineffective as the Federation grows, because such a voting system can ultimately be used to bypass the majority.
With Quebecia's suggestion that the motion can only pass if only 75% of the population votes in favor, the system will be much less likely to be corrupted.
Of course, this is only a suggestion on our part.
Sincerely,
Québécia
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)