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Can you say why you were prefer STV over simple approval voting where the top 5 vote getters win? Substantial distortions are still possible with STV, and it is
by lkrubner 4y ago
Can you say why you were prefer STV over simple approval voting where the top 5 vote getters win? Substantial distortions are still possible with STV, and it is complicated. By contrast "50 candidates are running, the voters get 50 votes, the top 5 vote getters win" will have distortions similar to STV, but the math is simple and everyone can understand it. What benefit does STV have?
- panick21_ 4y agoScore voting is far better then approval or ranked choice. Giving every candidate 1-5 or 1-10 points like Amazon reviews is by far the best system.
- lkrubner 4y agoBut Netflix tried score voting for years, with tens of millions of users, and in the end they gave up on score voting and switched to approval voting.
- panick21_ 4y agoThat might be the right system to make voting on lots of media practical threw terrible input devices but when we are talking about a political system that decides how to use nuclear weapons, the effort is worth it.