The most recent presidential election may have been the most toxic in Atlasia's history. Moreover, it only reaffirmed the two party domination that has long dominated Atlasia (even if one of the top two candidates was nominally independent). The last time the third place candidate in a presidential election got more than 10% of the first preference vote was 4 elections ago, and the last time they got more than 20% of the vote was 9 elections ago. Ranked Choice Voting has allowed elections to erode the civility and unity of our republican while choking the life out of minor parties and candidates. Voters are fed up with status quo Atlasia politics. The Score the Vote Party exists to provide them with an alternative.
Our raison d'être is to implement score voting nationwide. Under score voting, voters will rate each candidate they have an opinion on from 1-10, and the candidate with the highest average score will win. Unlike RCV, score voting considers the totality of voter preferences at once rather than just their highest preference for a non-eliminated candidate. It also wouldn't force voters to arbitrarily give a preference for any given candidate over another, reducing the toxicity of our politics.
Our party's primary goal is to implement score voting for all single winner elections in all levels of Atlasia government. Secondarily, we call for implementing a cardinal PR method for all multi-winner elections in Atlasia. We specifically endorse Single Distributed Vote (SDV) for such elections, but consider any cardinal proportional representation method acceptable. These systems should be implemented simultaneously to avoid the confusion that would result from a ballot using both score voting and STV for different races.
The Score The Vote party does not have an official position on whether or not a constitutional convention should happen but calls for an constitutional convention that does happen to enshrine score voting into the new constitution. Being a single-issue party composed of reform-minded members from across the political spectrum, the Score The Vote party does not have a stated position on any other issues in Atlasia that aren't directly related to the voting system our elections are held under.
End the toxic duopoly. Score The Vote.
