(11-02-2020, 02:28 PM)Jebediah Wrote:

(11-01-2020, 02:26 PM)Domais Wrote: A scandal comes out about someone you voted for, rather than changing your vote you withdraw that vote and if enough people withdraw their vote then that person doesn't win.

The whole point of restricting changing your vote is to stop candidates making campaigns to change people's votes mid-vote-period. This proposal doesn't solve anything - the only thing that changes is instead of the more popular candidate gaining changed votes, now the less popular candidate loses votes, which gives the same result.

That's why I said "this doesn't really change anything" to the proposal.

Actually, it would be the other way around since people could withdraw their vote rather than switch.

But yeah, I suspect any scandal that would be enough to force people to start withdrawing votes, would likely also flag the security apparatus and the EC.