“Ranked choice voting” is a misleading term for Alternative Vote or Instant Runoff Voting. There are many ranked choice voting systems and the most important is Single Transferrable Vote, which is a popular system of proportional representation.
The result is that name recognition and bold statements are detrimental to getting elected. The result is that the most milquetoast , no-name, do nothings are who gets elected.
I get that people are dissatisfied with the current system. That doesn’t make literally anything else better.
These alternative voting systems are not the silver bullet that people think they are.
In political science, Duverger’s law (/ˈduvərʒeɪ/ DOO-vər-zhay) holds that in political systems with only one winner (as in the U.S.), two main parties tend to emerge with minor parties typically splitting votes away from the most similar major party.
“Ranked choice voting” is a misleading term for Alternative Vote or Instant Runoff Voting. There are many ranked choice voting systems and the most important is Single Transferrable Vote, which is a popular system of proportional representation.
I don’t remember the name of it, but I really liked the one that weighed in disapproval. It’s similar to RCV, with a very important difference.
Like standard RCV, after a count that doesn’t result in a majority of voters with the same top-ranked candidate they eliminate a candidate.
But instead of removing the candidate with the least top-ranked votes, it removes the candidate with the most bottom-ranked votes.
The result is a system that trends away from a hyper-polarized 2-party system.
Oh I like this. Anyone got the name for it?
The result is that name recognition and bold statements are detrimental to getting elected. The result is that the most milquetoast , no-name, do nothings are who gets elected.
I get that people are dissatisfied with the current system. That doesn’t make literally anything else better.
These alternative voting systems are not the silver bullet that people think they are.
Isn’t ranked choice just the single candidate version? Like, you don’t get proportional representation with a presidential election
You can elect multiple reps, the quota threshold is just different
Importantly you do need the multi member districts to get the full benefit of these kinds of voting systems and prevent duvergers law
In political science, Duverger’s law (/ˈduvərʒeɪ/ DOO-vər-zhay) holds that in political systems with only one winner (as in the U.S.), two main parties tend to emerge with minor parties typically splitting votes away from the most similar major party.