Review my web app - Modern Ballots
ericd: I've been wishing the US had a score based voting system for a while now, but there are considerable obstacles:
-Two dominant, incumbent parties that have no incentive to make it easier for more parties.
-A populace that is unlikely to understand why one would even want to change the voting system, and why score-based voting would enable more parties to rise.
-Millions of dollars or more invested in the current voting system.to name a few.Not to discourage you, though, I think it's great.Education might be a good place to start, and that seems to be what you're dabbling with in writing this web app. I'd be very interested to hear your ideas regarding the other issues, though (and any other issues you think of).I don't believe the current system is codified in the US constitution, though I could be wrong - a friend and I couldn't find anything specifically prescribing the choose one candidate ballot system of voting in the national constitution when we looked. The specific methods might be decided at the state level.