Improving the Voting System

Donklephant has these suggestions:

• Make election day a holiday, so people don’t have to take time off work to vote.[...]
   
• Implement instant-runoff voting, so voting for the individual has more meaning.
   
• Make ballots easy to read[....]
   
• Lower barriers to voting, notably by not forcing people to stand in line for hours to cast their ballot.
   

Hear, hear! However, while I once was on the instant runoff voting bandwagon, I now lean more towards either having legislative superdistricts, with multiple individuals representing each district (and with individuals being able to vote for only one candidate…), or with going for a more parlimentary-style election.

Sadly, the elected officials with the power to make this happen tend to find such changes against their best interests.