Comment on Instead of only voting for one candidate we should be able to upvote or downvote each candidate

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• sp6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was all-in for ranked choice voting (and even started working on an app for it) until I learned that a candidate who would have won can end up losing by becoming more popular, which is extremely counterintuitive, and a flaw that I don’t think any voting system should have.

  Nicky Case wrote a fantastic explanation about how that can happen, plus exploring many other voting methods: ncase.me/ballot/

  I still think RCV (and really anything else) would be better than the US’s first-past-the-post system, but I’d definitely prefer some type of approval, score, or STAR voting over it.

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  • Zippy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes. Often there are unintended results. I think another issue is that many people would have difficulty understanding the math behind it. It is not complex but it doesn’t end up with concise results sometimes and distrust in the system can certainly jilt some people as we have witnessed enough.

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  • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That was a fantastic explanation, thanks for that

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• nix@merv.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have. What i want is an improved verison of Approval Voting

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