Comment on Instead of only voting for one candidate we should be able to upvote or downvote each candidate
sp6@lemmy.world 1 year agoIt’s certainly still better than the US’s current first-past-the-post system, but it has a critical flaw where a candidate who would have won can end up losing by becoming more popular, which could be abused by people trying to “game” the voting system. In reality, something like approval or score voting would be more representative of voter’s desires.
See Nicky Case’s excellent write-up on how that can happen: ncase.me/ballot/
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 1 year ago
That’s interesting, I hadn’t heard that before, though the one that has that flaw you mentioned looks to be instant runoff voting, which is not quite what I was suggesting (what I was thinking of looks to be called “borda count” here, though the write uo has a criticism of that as well)