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Ranked 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 no
by milesskorpen 7y ago
Ranked 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).