I’d be more about elections if you could give both a positive vote and a negative vote, right now it feels like just fighting against fascism and slowly losing (I’m not from USA so not talking about your oranges). I used to not vote when I was younger, because I was protesting against the system. I still am, but now I don’t have the luxury of not voting since if people like me won’t, the fascists will win.

Anyway, now terrible people get in power by being terrible, lying, and getting morons to vote for them; if they’d gain negative backlash votes that would nullify that shit, it would immediately make it harder for flashy candidates to get elected. Our political system here would support this especially well, since in Finland the votes pool for the whole party - if even one populist would get a huge number of negative votes, it could even tank the whole party .
Of course this would go both ways, but cutting most of the populists away wouldn’t be a bad thing. You wouldn’t get only boring candidates elected either, because nobody would know about them. So ideally the people who vote for local candidates that walk around and actually talk to people would win, and here a lot of the smaller parties would have more chances to get in power and things wouldn’t be stagnant like they are now (in a bad way).

Of course that wouldn’t be without flaws, but it would be nice to try somewhere to see what would happen. But it won’t, since it would cut the terrible people from power and they want the status quo everywhere