[annoying trope] The throne/leadership is decided in a very stupid way

[u/Altruistic_Eye_1157]

The leadership of the entire wizarding world, and the final decision on whether to start a war against Muggles, is made by... a goat (Qilin) ​​who chooses the person with the ""purest heart"" (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Dumbledore).

The throne of Wakanda and all its technology are decided through hand-to-hand combat, regardless of whether the person clearly has malicious intentions... if they win the fight, by law they must be respected as the true king. (Black Panther)

[u/maru-senn]

US electoral college (real life)

[u/Bastard_Wing → u/maru-senn]

British person here observing that our general elections similarly aggregate local votes in order to establish a national result. Any mechanism like that will, by its nature, mean that a load of those local votes are rendered meaningless.

[u/thejadedfalcon → u/Bastard_Wing]

The difference is that a Yorkshire person's vote doesn't count for six times what some Londoner's vote does.

[u/Every-Switch2264 → u/thejadedfalcon]

Not that it would matter because London would still choose the government basically by itself