Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> I'd like to suggest a more radical approach then: what if we only hold
> elections under two circumstances?
>
> 1) An existing member steps down and announces that a seat is opening.
>
> 2) A vote of no-confidence is raised for one or more individuals currently
> serving. In this case, those individuals can also remain on the ballot to
> retain their seat. The details of the no confidence clause would need to
> be worked out to avoid constant jeopardy and too frequent elections, but I
> think that could be feasible.
This would essentially turn FESCo into an oligarchic dictatorship.
Case 2 is not going to happen very often which leaves us with people
sticking to their terms for as long as they want with no possibility of
election, the definition of a dictatorship.
There are several practical issues making case 2 impractical. The first two
are:
(i) Who gets to start a vote of no-confidence?
(ii) Who gets to vote on it?
If the answer to either or both of those questions is FESCo, this means
there is no way for the community to get rid of a rogue FESCo, so we end up
in a complete dictatorship. But if we do not restrict (i) in some way, there
could be many votes of no-confidence getting started (and most of them would
likely fail, but people would get tired of them and election turnout would
suffer as a whole). Which leads us to:
(iii) Under what conditions can a vote of no-confidence be started?
If it is too easy, voters will tire out of the many votes. If it is too
hard, the whole concept is ineffective. And finally:
(iv) How likely is it for a vote of no-confidence to succeed in practice?
Due to voter psychology, I expect most of them to fail no matter what.
Kevin Kofler
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