There’s always going to be a trade-off when dealing with humans: voting result optimization vs ease of voting. That’s always been the issue, not that we don’t

There’s always going to be a trade-off when dealing with humans: voting result optimization vs ease of voting. That’s always been the issue, not that we don’t know of better result counting theories. Even in the 2020s, the ballots are explained over and over, “Connect the horizontal line”, or “fill in the box completely” — it’s a binary input to capture the best information from the lowest denominator. STAR would change the input from binary to an order N, and the number of mistakes or “that’s not what I intended” will happen. The average HN reader probably can fill in boxes pretty good, but the outside world not so much. RCV is a decent compromise.