Should Mild Preferences Have Equal Weight?

[David Sklansky]

Forget for a moment the logistical problems with this idea. Lets just talk political theory.

One of the problems with democracy is that some idiots vote and some genuises don't. I'll be talking about that elsewhere at a later date. But I feel like that there is another problem. Namely that it isn't really fair to defer to the majority in cases where a large minority have a STRONG reason to take the other side and the majority is close to neutral.

If I'm right (do you agree?) how can things be rectified? I can see two possible solutions, at least in theory.

1.Only allow people to cast a vote on a fraction of the total candidates/issues to be decided. Say half. They choose how to spread their votes.

2.Allow the total votes for any person to be equal to the total of the decisions, but voters can give something more than one vote while ignoring other issues. Perhaps with a limit such as four.

Is it against the law for a small city to try something like this out in a minor election? They could even perhaps simultaneously do this with a standard election just to see how the results differ. Am I being naive to think that such a suggestion has any chance of ever being implemented?