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Ireland uses this appraoch. We call it STV. STV Explained -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI It just a
by s_dev 7y ago
Ireland uses this appraoch. We call it STV.
STV Explained -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI
It just a better democracy because it's more representative.
It's solves the "wasted vote" problem people have with democracy and why many democracies result in a two party system. This way it ensures your vote is counted and multiple parties exist.
- ownagefool 7y agoScotland also uses STV (Single Transferable Vote), though also participates in FPTP (First Past the Post) for UK wide elections.
- seanalltogether 7y agoNI too. I would love to see STV used for Parliament so that possibly someone other then DUP or Sinn Fein could make it in.
- stevenleeg 7y agoI'd also highly recommend "Tweak the Vote" from Radiolab, which discusses Ireland's election process: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/tweak-vote https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/tweak...
- gmiller123456 7y agoActually, that's a form of Proportional Representation. What's being adopted by NY still results in one winner, not a percentage of seats awarded based on the percentage of votes a party got.
- pmyteh 7y agoInstant Runoff Voting is essentially STV in the degenerate case of single seat constituencies rather than multi-member ones. So you're both right! It is in some sense the same system, but it plays very differently in that the results are majoritarian rather than proportional.
- tunesmith 7y agoGenerally, I think it's accepted that IRV is a good choice for multi-member elections. But for these kinds of US single-winner elections, that's where its flaws come out.
- bbrazil 7y agoIt seems to work fine for the Irish presidential elections, which are single winner. The Irish presidency is almost entirely a ceremonial role.