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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. House elections and single-member congressional ā€¦ Continue reading ā€œVoters are sick of the 2-party system. A new poll shows theyā€™re open to big changesā€ ā†’

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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  • raze2012@lemmy.world
    8Ā·
    1 month ago

    Itā€™s not astroturfig. Thatā€™s the way a lot of local elections (and 1-2 statewide elections) work. Itā€™s a system that has precedent, so it gets the most support.

    But yes, thereā€™s more than one way to shear a sheep. Iā€™m open to any variety of choices not based on winner-take-all.

    there isnā€™t a situation where voting for someone you want increases odds for someone you donā€™t.

    RCV barely increases the odds for someone you donā€™t want. The whole idea is that it rewards moderate views so that ā€œeveryoneā€™s 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 ā€œ0 or max scoreā€. Score based voting works best with high information electorate, and the USā€¦ hell, pretty much all global politics arenā€™t 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).