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Given voter turnout rates around 50% for presidential elections and even lower for House and Senate votes, getting the vote out is an old-fashioned but still vi
by guard0g 8y ago
Given voter turnout rates around 50% for presidential elections and even lower for House and Senate votes, getting the vote out is an old-fashioned but still viable strategy without resorting to ranked choice.
I doubt voters are sufficiently aware or engaged in most issues to make ranked choice effective.
- snarf21 8y agoI think it is also missing the point that the voting machines are in no way set up for ranked. There hasn't even been money to update machines that are 50 years old and punch paper.
- tzs 8y agoRanked choice would be much much more effective than getting the vote out for addressing the problem of in a more than two way election having the least desired candidate win because the more desired candidates split the vote. The more good candidates that are widely approved that run, the better the chance in our current system that we'll select someone who is widely disapproved. We can elect someone who would have lost one on one verses any of the other candidates.