Comment on Instead of only voting for one candidate we should be able to upvote or downvote each candidate
cosmicrose@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There are lots of really cool voting systems that don’t have the same weaknesses that first-past-the-post does. Check out ncase.me/ballot/ if you want a fun interactive explanation of several.
I will always upvote that ncase ballot link, it’s so well-written.
Lots of people here are arguing for Ranked Choice, but Nicky’s write-up shows that even though it’s still better than the US’s first-past-the-post system, something like Approval or Score voting are much better options.
I’ve long thought Condorcet is at least very close to being the absolute best election method. Nice to see it validated here!
In the epilogue she says we haven’t tested scoring methods.
But in my local county council elections we had something to that degree. Every candidate (multiple candidates per party and independents) had three boxes. And every elector had 12 or 20 or something crosses to distribute. So you could give 3, 2, 1 or 0 crosses to a candidate.
Maybe the difference is, that didn’t yield a single winner but elected members of the council.
Which is also a much more glaring issue with fptp systems: not the race for president, but the fact that there are only 2 parties in parliament.
Nicky Case is amazing. I didn’t know she made a project on this. Thanks!
unmixable_food_partition@kbin.social 6 months ago
CGP Grey has multiple videos explaining different voting systems as well. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqs5ohhass_RN57KWlJKLOc5xdD9_ktRg