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FairVote has a lock on the "we need to change our voting system: this is the best alternative" message, and from what I can tell are dogmatically opposed to car
by macawfish 7y ago
FairVote has a lock on the "we need to change our voting system: this is the best alternative" message, and from what I can tell are dogmatically opposed to cardinal systems in general.
There's also a history of bickering and personal attacks between different voting reform activists, including people in leadership positions.
The various ordinal voting advocates (Equal Vote, CES, etc.) really need help on the messaging and movement-building front. A lot of lay people struggle to "get" the abstract framing these issues are often presented in. It comes easy to computer programmers and mathematicians because we're relentlessly trained to think abstractly about algorithmic tradeoffs and emergent limits of systems.
But a lot of people just don't see why this issue is important. It just seems like an obscure focus.
- ClayShentrup 7y ago> The various ordinal voting advocates (Equal Vote, CES, etc. Cardinal. FairVote is ordinal (IRV).