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What if we rated each of the presidential candidates rather than voting for just one? This is the idea of majority judgment defended by the Mieux Voter association. This is how it works …
Chloé Ridel, Co-founder of the Mieux Voter association, defends the idea of majority judgment. According to her, the current poll “frustrates voters a lot“.”It may result in electing someone who, in fact, is not supported by a majority of the electorate“, points out Chloe. She takes for example Emmanuel Macron, who, she explains, won the election because he was facing Marine Le Pen”and that there was a massive vote of rejection from Marine Le Pen in his favor. “For Chloe, the current voting method – the first past the post, two rounds – would be a poor measure of opinion. Indeed, choosing a single candidate from a panel of candidates does not allow us to know concretely whether it is a question of ” a membership vote, a useful vote, a default vote …
To avoid the pitfalls mentioned above, Chloe advocates majority judgment: “It is a method of voting where the voter votes by giving his opinion on all the candidates. He gives each candidate a mention on a scale which goes from “excellent” to “to reject”: excellent, very good, fair, insufficient, to to reject. “ All the candidates are therefore evaluated independently of each other and it is the candidate best evaluated by a majority who wins the election. According to Chloe, this voting method would allow people “to truly express themselves on the political offer, in membership as well as in rejection“.