Hate vote
How does democracy function?
You are entitled to vote to pick your representative who would rule you for the next
What would happen if i were given one vote + hate vote in a general election?
Like, if i can say x is my choice for the MLA post in this constituency, i can also cast a hate vote on Mr Y. I can use this when i feel Mr. Y is unfit to rule.
Every hate vote will nullify a vote.
If X gets 100 votes and 25 hate votes, and Y gets 90 votes and 10 hate votes.
X’s net votes is 75 while Y’s net votes will be 80 so Y is the winner even though X has more votes than Y.
I think hate votes will give a fair indication of how many people truly hate a politician.
Since our elections are conducted using EVMs, including this feature in the next version should not be a problem. I heard a similar concept exists in some european country. I think it high time India had one like this too.
What say?
October 15th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
excellent post Prabu…
its a nice thing to have a feature like dis. i think our politicians will get more hate votes than d actual votes… its interesting to know how many are hating a particular politician…
October 15th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
idukku peru “negative marking”
when they tried to start negative marking in the entrance tests like GRE, or CAT everyone was screaming.. you see in tests eenie meenie mynie mo would still work on multiple choice.. but when you are penalized for a wrong answer, you wouldnt gamble!
like your strategy.. this might actually work.. only thing is when there is a two party system, everyone will do a negative marking for opposing party and the margin of victory might be even narrower than today’s margins!
October 15th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Good one.. But indha maadhiri pannina nalla vote avida kalla vote thaan adhigamaagum.. [:D]
October 16th, 2007 at 2:15 am
Soooper idea….
endha European country la indha system irukku nu theriyala… certainly not in UK.
October 16th, 2007 at 6:44 am
Excellent idea!
October 19th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
kalai
nandri as always
sundar
fortunately there is no 2 party system ( at least in theory) in india.
also this would work to negate the influences of ‘alliances’ and vote splits
sangeetha
kalla vote ippo irukara adhey level la dhaan irukkum or so i feel..
chakra,
i THINK it was germany or france.. not sure now
aparna,
thank u
aparna,
October 19th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Kalla votes will increase, and DMK will adopt a different strategy. Employ all its Kalla Votes as hate votes for ADMK.
Namakku oru kan ponaalum paravaa illai. Aduththavanukku rendu kannum poganum !!
October 20th, 2007 at 1:08 am
keerthi
what if the negative votes of DMK and ADMK cancel out each other and DMDK has a rchance simply becos people hate it less than the others??