As an increasing trend I think it is a very bad idea.
Sooner or later a last minute relevation might occur or an incident
occur after most have voted which would have changed the vote result.
The decision must be instantaneous and not spread over days and days.

Bezza is right !

Dear Bezza,

«The decision must be instantaneous and not spread over days and days.»

Indeed, but usually when something big changes and is revealed, we wait up to 3 years: what difference do a few days make?

Yuyutsu, true, but there is a solution for that.
Anyone can move a motion of no confidence and if there was an extreme
situation with enormous public demand then if passed the governor can
appoint a government and call an election.

Rankings and tables, 5 hours later, computers, last minute revelations, anyone can move a motion, the governor is in on the act, yada, yada, yada etc. I think some people need a reality check.

Voters today are better informed about issues and policies than ever before through modern media. Turn the clock back to the first federal election in 1901, it was total confusion from the start. Fortunately things have moved on from then.

Dear Bezza,

«Anyone can move a motion of no confidence»

I couldn't agree more.

Yet, there is something even better:

We should all be able to vote on the policies rather than on the people that happen to execute them. While not technically possible past Roman times, technologically this has become pretty easy today.

This does not mean that we need to be experts on everything and vote directly on all issues: we should be able to appoint proxies, and these proxies too should be able to appoint theirs, etc., then we can vote directly only about the issues we know about and care about.

If we vote by the deadline on a particular issue, then it is our vote that counts, otherwise it's our proxy's vote that counts, etc. We should of course be able to re-appoint a different proxy at any time. Selecting and sacking the people to execute our democratic wishes, then becomes just one specific case, one issue among many - we don't even need to have an election-day!

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Dear Paul,

«Turn the clock back to the first federal election in 1901, it was total confusion from the start. Fortunately things have moved on from then.»

Yes, things have moved on from then, firstly for the better, but then we are now over the peak. In 1901 as you may remember, we suffered from under-information, whereas now we suffer from over-information: somewhere around the 1960's or 1970's, perhaps 1980's, was the optimal time to live in modern history - since then we are in decline.