Term Limits

Kevin Drum talk term limits. He doesn't like em. I like em. But I dislike the hard cutoff of "two terms and your out!" I'd prefer something a little sexier.

So how about handicapping incumbents with an ever-increasing headwind:

votes = votes * log(50 - years_in_office) / log(50)

log50

After 40 years, you only receive 60% of your raw vote total. Nobody will make it to 50 years.

Of course you can adjust those 50s to taste.

Plus, it will finally achieve what decades of school curricula have failed to do: link civics and algebra.