Man changes name to Literally Anybody Else and announces US presidential run
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If it gets the majority of votes, candidates currently running are all disqualified and replaced then a new election is held. This repeats until a candidate can beat nobody.
Enough of this lesser of two evils nonsense, we deserve at least 3 evils to pick from.
Then either you create vacancies (which leave functions unable to be performed or being performed by someone not elected at all) or incumbents get extended terms, and either of these create strategic reasons to game the system to create and leverage the resulting dysfunction.
There are better election methods than the plurality and majority/runoff methods common in the US—lots of them!—but “majority with nuke the slate and start over as an option” is worse, not better.
The people voted that the role should be vacant. They haven't authorized anyone to represent them yet. Leave it empty.
> There are better election methods than the plurality and majority/runoff methods common in the US—lots of them!
When people suggest these "better methods" those always seem to prefer their preferred candidate.
Can't say that about mine. All it does is raise the bar to the point where you have to provide somebody who is better than nobody.
Instead you should have the threshold vary randomly with the actual amount only announced very shortly before the election when there isn't time for anyone to change strategies in response. Eventually the threshold will be low enough that there will definitely be a winner, but you don't know when it's going to happen so you need to treat every race as potentially the real one.
That only replaces the legislative and not the executive role of the President.
The names that have been nominated by major parties are just a convenience feature since tens of millions of people (for national offices) have already expressed that they prefer the nominated individuals. If you prefer someone else, you are free to write-in whomever you like.
This way instead gives them an explicit and easy choice that would be the same for every like-minded voter, that actually counts against the other candidates.