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> Not requiring a change of ballots when you are doing very different things with them is, IMO, a negative traits because it creates a false familiarity. I don
by Sniffnoy 9y ago
> Not requiring a change of ballots when you are doing very different things with them is, IMO, a negative traits because it creates a false familiarity.
I don't think that's something you can really do with voting systems, though. Lots of voting systems are based around the same input assumptions, i.e., people are submitting a rank-order of preferences. And nothing's saying you'd have to switch to PLACE from STV rather than from FPTP. Regardless I think it doesn't make a lot of sense to associate ordinal ballots with STV specifically rather than just, well, what they are, which is a rank-order of preferences, that will get used somehow.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> I don't think that's something you can really do with voting systems You can sometimes, you can't others. > Lots of voting systems are based around the same input assumptions, i.e., people are submitting a rank-order of preferences But FPTP is not based on that input, so changing from FPTP to a more proportional system (many of which rely on that kind of input) provided a clear opportunity to have a clean break without false familiarity. > And nothing's saying you'd have to switch to PLACE from STV rather than from FPTP. The false familiarity is FPTP -> PLACE.
- Sniffnoy 9y agoAh! I misunderstood. You're talking about the possibility of "check one, go by that candidate's endorsed ballot". (Something that could really be added to just about any voting system; I hadn't really considered it as essential to PLACE in particular.) Yeah, that's an interesting point against that feature, then. Hadn't considered that.