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For Americans who are interested in alternative voting systems, I recommend The Fulcrum: https://thefulcrum.us/ https://thefulcrum.us/ They cover good-governme
by Taikonerd 6y ago
For Americans who are interested in alternative voting systems, I recommend The Fulcrum: https://thefulcrum.us/ https://thefulcrum.us/ They cover good-government type reforms, including voting reforms.
For example, the city of Fargo just switched to approval voting -- coverage here: https://thefulcrum.us/voting/approval-voting-2646444809 https://thefulcrum.us/voting/approval-voting-2646444809
- tfehring 6y agoI'll also plug https://www.electionscience.org https://www.electionscience.org, an awesome and underfunded nonprofit that helped get Fargo's approval voting initiative passed. (I've donated to them but have no other affiliation.)
- specialist 6y agoApproval voting has best balance between fairness and simplicity. Election integrity wise, less complex is better. RCV is a smidge more fair than Approval Voting and three smidges more complex. Both are much better than FPTP, by both criteria. I support my local RCV effort. If I truly wanted Approval Voting, I should have put in the hard work. Source: Worked as poll inspector, was an election integrity activist for about 10 years.
- ClayShentrup 6y agoApproval voting is fairer and better than IRV in every way. https://www.electionscience.org/library/approval-voting-versus-irv/ https://www.electionscience.org/library/approval-voting-vers...
- specialist 6y agoThanks. Great survey of all the talking points. File under narcissism of small differences: I've been equating RCV with Score Voting, not IRV. I'll review the literature and see where I'm wrong. I do not support IRV. It's an election integrity nightmare for little or no gain over Approval Voting. My introduction to election stuff was thru IRV advocacy. Then I learned about tabulation complexity. Over time, my position changed to PR for assemblies and Approval Voting for executives. I now wonder if Approval Voting could (should) also be used for PR. That's all to say my strong-opinions-loosely-held about voting systems is motivated by us forging a better democracy, not any particular implementation. I'll realpolitik support any path forward.
- anchpop 6y agoApproval Voting is just Score Voting with only two scores (0 and 1). Turns out you don't lose that much!