> A lot of alternative voting systems that people like (e.g. ranked choice) are too complicated With the quadratic method, though, all the complexity of the v

> A lot of alternative voting systems that people like (e.g. ranked choice) are too complicated With the quadratic method, though, all the complexity of the voting system is on the ballot rather than in the tallying process. It's pretty common to see normal people on Facebook claim that 3^2 is 6 rather than 9. I got really into the mathematics behind voting awhile back and discovered that it's been a topic of some rigorous study for over a thousand years. There exist mathematically "perfect" voting systems that are somewhat hard for the average person to understand [0]. As it turns out, the system that makes the "best" tradeoffs between ease of implementation, ease of auditing, political buy-in, and overall fairness is ranked choice voting. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method