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This is why I really wish we had ranked choice voting (or approval voting). That way we'd have more political parties and a healthier political climate.
by bostonvaulter2 7y ago
This is why I really wish we had ranked choice voting (or approval voting). That way we'd have more political parties and a healthier political climate.
- greglindahl 7y agoWe have something different in California, apparently you don’t know about it? Hard to have a conversation when folks are unaware.
- milesskorpen 7y agoRanked choice voting isn't what's stopping a third party. Majority-wins / first-past-the-post is. There's ranked choice voting in San Francisco, and there's not a new party.
- ClayShentrup 7y agohttps://asitoughttobe.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/score-voting/ https://asitoughttobe.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/score-voting/
- dragonwriter 7y ago> Ranked choice voting isn't what's stopping a third party. Majority-wins / first-past-the-post is. Uh, ranked choice / IRV is a different system than majority / FPTP. Having the former means not having the latter (for any given office.) But state and federal offices don't use RCV, and local offices are formally nonpartisan, so there are no partisan offices that SF's use of RCV effects.
- milesskorpen 7y agoMaybe I used the wrong terminology. More specifically, I think our issue is with winner-take-all, rather than proportional representation (see: all(?) parliamentary systems).