I particularly like the Swiss solution: employ topical referenda, and stop insisting that &quot;everyone should vote&quot;. I&#x27;d rather have 60% of the people abstaining to vote because they don&#x27;t care or don&#x27;t know, than having them &quot;sell&quot; their vote to the lowest bidder with the nicest tie.<p>Especially for a &quot;master of puppets&quot;&#x2F;figurehead election like POTUS, the problem isn&#x27;t &quot;too many uninformed people&quot;, it&#x27;s &quot;too many topics in a single vote&quot;. Even assuming 90% of your voters are knowledgeable about 90% of the issues, they can&#x27;t express any of their knowledge in that single button or pencil stroke.<p>The same is true for trying to &quot;divine&quot; meaning to the votes cast, as well: since every voter only expressed a single button press, it&#x27;s easy to dismiss votes that don&#x27;t align with your own views as uninformed.<p>You want elections with depth? Don&#x27;t make voting mandatory (either socially or legally), and use topical voting instead of figurehead voting.