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We have it here in St Paul for city elections. It is definitely more complicated. It sounds easy in practice--just rank your candidates--but how you actually pu
by coldpie 6y ago
We have it here in St Paul for city elections. It is definitely more complicated. It sounds easy in practice--just rank your candidates--but how you actually put that down on paper in a machine-readable way is a bit non-obvious. Here's an example of how it actually looks[1]. Now imagine that same thing, for every office on the ballot... It's not too bad if you know what you're doing, but it's easy to see how someone would do it wrong.
To be clear, I'm a huge fan of RCV and think it is massively unethical that we do not have it (or some similar system) for all elections. I consider elections that don't use RCV to be borderline invalid.
[1] https://www.minnpost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/default/files/mpls-sample-ballot.png https://www.minnpost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/default/fi...
- BurritoAlPastor 6y agoThe layout of that ballot isn’t helping. For comparison, I’ve found the RCV ballot in San Francisco pretty intuitive (https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Images/Demo_Ballot.gif https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Images/Dem...)
- 1980phipsi 6y agoIt would be nice if groups (including but not limited to political parties) could provide recommended ballots, in line with straight ticket voting, but in a ranked choice setting so for instance, the Democrat ballot might recommend the Democrat first and then the Green Party candidate second (or something like that).