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Ranked choice voting kills the power of fear. Without ranked choice voting, nobody running has to make the case for why they, specifically, will be good. They
by qgin 5y ago
Ranked choice voting kills the power of fear.
Without ranked choice voting, nobody running has to make the case for why they, specifically, will be good. They just have to make the case for why someone else will be horrific and that they are the most likely candidate to defeat the horrific person.
With ranked choice voting, each candidate has to make the case for why they, specifically, deserve your vote. There’s no need to be afraid of “throwing your vote away” on a candidate that is perceived before the election to not have as much support as others.
- MiddleEndian 5y agoFor executives, RCV is the way to go for sure (or maybe approval voting). For the representative govt, proportional voting seems like the way to go. Give each legislator voting power equal to their number of votes (with some cutoff for logistical reasons). Reducing both the need to vote strategically and the efficacy of gerrymandering (since one district can now be 45% rep from party A, 44% rep from party B, and 11% rep from party C scaled by the total number of residents).