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The answer is to vote out politicians. Getting ranked choice voting on your states ballot would go a long way to fixing this. They would not have Mamdani on the
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The answer is to vote out politicians. Getting ranked choice voting on your states ballot would go a long way to fixing this. They would not have Mamdani on the ballot for NY mayor if it wasn't for ranked choice voting. Certain politicans know this and have made RCV illegal in their state. Get RCV on the ballot for your state.
- mindslight 1y agoRCV / Ranked Pairs of course. The IRV decision process is still a relic of the two party system, with the possibility for some pretty terrible strategic-voting dynamics as votes diverge from just two major parties.
- dragonwriter 1y agoRCV is another name for IRV, it is not a generic name for the use of ranked ballots.
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- boroboro4 1y agoNot important but Mamdani would’ve won without ranked choice voting too, it didn’t play a role in the end.
- tialaramex 1y agoWe can't know. Ranked choice changes how people vote. In particular it gives people permission to vote for a candidate they like but don't expect to be able to win.
- AnthonyMouse 1y agoScore voting (or STAR) is better.
- 9283409232 1y agoAnything is better than what we have and ranked choice voting is the most popular alternative.
- AnthonyMouse 1y agoIf you're doing a new thing anyway then it makes no sense to do something worse instead of something better. Popularity is determined by people; make the better thing the popular one.
- 9283409232 1y agoIt absolutely makes sense. You need buy in from the public. RCV is the most known alternative and it has taken a decade to get it that far. If you want to start the work of informing people about STAR voting then be my guess but RCV is a tremendous improvement from what we have and an acceptable alternative.
- AnthonyMouse 1y agoMost people don't actually know anything about any of this. If they've heard of RCV at all their understanding of it is at the level of "it's something different than the status quo and supposedly better". You could swap in STAR and they mostly wouldn't even notice that you've changed anything. But you'd notice the difference in the election outcomes, in a good way.
- 9283409232 1y agoEnough people know about it that it has been put on ballots in several states and has had strong pushes in other states while STAR hasn't at all. If you want to get outside and start informing people about STAR then please do but RCV has a decade long head start and is the path of least resistance.
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- FireBeyond 1y ago> Certain politicans know this and have made RCV illegal in their state. That would be Republicans. While Democrats have pushed across multiple states for changing voting mechanisms, Republicans in eleven states have pre-emptively banned any and all use of RCV at any level within the state.