NPR:
AmidĀ growing frustrationĀ with both major political parties, voters are open to some big changes.
AĀ new poll, commissioned by supporters of election reforms and shared with NPR, shows there is significant support for upending winner-take-all U.S. Houseā¦ Continue reading
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Itās my personal opinion that a lot of the support for Ranked Choice specifically is astroturfing from groups that donāt want real change. Itās nearly as bad as First Past the Post and is still subject to spoiler effects for example. Also too confusing for voters to trust.
My preferences are for approval or score voting. With those there isnāt a situation where voting for someone you want increases odds for someone you donāt.
Itās not astroturfig. Thatās the way a lot of local elections (and 1-2 statewide elections) work. Itās a system that has precedent, so it gets the most support.
But yes, thereās more than one way to shear a sheep. Iām open to any variety of choices not based on winner-take-all.
RCV barely increases the odds for someone you donāt want. The whole idea is that it rewards moderate views so that āeveryoneās 2nd choiceā is better than a radical first choice. The Spoiler effect will almost always be there, but Nothing is worse than FPTP for that effect. Especially with Score based voting that can (and given experience with internet ratings, will) degenerate to ā0 or max scoreā. Score based voting works best with high information electorate, and the USā¦ hell, pretty much all global politics arenāt full of people laser focused on every little law.
I like Approval based voting, though. The issue lies more in excessive runoffs when we get the most popular candidates (or the worst case where none of the candidate are approved enough).