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Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.

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yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

We studied it in Canada, including how it was used in Australia, and it was the only electoral systems out of all the ones listed that actually widened the gap between voter intention and seat distribution from FPTP.

www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/…/page-174#49

Specifically here, where it is called “Alternative Vote”:

www.ourcommons.ca/content/…/image002.gif

I’m mostly just frustrated about how it keeps getting renamed.

But it is entirely possible to invent an electoral system that is worse than what we have now, and it seems politicians might have done that with IRV.

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Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Specifically here, where it is called “Alternative Vote”

Yeah that seems to be a very common alternative name. I’m especially not a fan of that name, since all it tells you is that it’s “not FPTP”. At least “Preferential voting” or “ranked choice voting” tells you something of the ballot.

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