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Fond though I am of ranked choice conceptually, there are a lot of people I would not enjoy (nor be particularly successful at) talking through voting under suc
by mst 2y ago
Fond though I am of ranked choice conceptually, there are a lot of people I would not enjoy (nor be particularly successful at) talking through voting under such a system.
Given especially US multi-race ballots, I find it a lot harder to see the incremental complexity of approval voting having a noticeable effect (though note for calibration that there's plenty of criticism out there for how confusing many multi-race ballots are as is).
- DemocracyFTW2 2y agoYour assessment may be swayed when you discover that the current de-facto bipartisan state of US politics is a logical and near-inevitable outcome of a first-past-the-post voting modality.
- JoshTriplett 2y agoSpecifically, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
- DemocracyFTW2 2y agoexactly, thx
- mst 2y agoEh? Of course it is, that's exactly why I want to see the system replaced. What does this have to do with my agreeing with you that approval voting wouldn't confuse people?