OT: Canadian Federal Election, Jan. 23

[Suicide Junkie]

I'd like to see the following to make us some nice representaional government without too many changes needed:

- All candidates with over 5% of the vote "win" in the riding.
- If you have X% of the popular vote in your riding, you get X% of a vote in parliament.
- If you have X% of the popular vote in your riding, you also get X% of the normal salary.

- In order to keep the physical number of chairs from ballooning, the candidates could jointly pick someone to go in their place, and/or telepresence in via the good old internet when nessesary.

Note that spoiled ballots, no-shows and other failed votes would count against the percentages.
This will both encourage people to vote, and encourage the politicians to encourage the people to vote. And it will encourage them to try hard even in ridings they would have a majority in.

The best part is, your vote will count even if your candidate dosen't come in first, and even if your candidate wins by a large margin.

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What do you think?