Take a small town, say about 4000 pop., where people generally know each other, and can nearly all agree that the way we run elections is very dysfunctional compared to a normal hiring process.
How many different 4000 people town election processes did you actually look at before you concluded that those elections are generally very dysfuncitonal?
Worthwhile question—short answer is this hasn’t been an extensive research problem so far.
For what it’s worth, I live in a town of population 17,000 and it seems dysfunctional enough. I’d consider staking a bet that they could half the property tax and still do as well (no prize to either side if it’s indeterminate, which it probably would be—notice the notoriously slippery word “could”) -- so yes, I’m pretty far from really putting my money where my mouth is.
How many different 4000 people town election processes did you actually look at before you concluded that those elections are generally very dysfuncitonal?
Worthwhile question—short answer is this hasn’t been an extensive research problem so far.
For what it’s worth, I live in a town of population 17,000 and it seems dysfunctional enough. I’d consider staking a bet that they could half the property tax and still do as well (no prize to either side if it’s indeterminate, which it probably would be—notice the notoriously slippery word “could”) -- so yes, I’m pretty far from really putting my money where my mouth is.