As a long-time proponent of IRV, you have managed to change my mind with your explanation of STAR voting! Thank you. While I found the compilation video instructive, these segments probably worked better on TIKTOK because there would be time in between to think about what just happened. Knowing the acronym for STAR voting was helpful and also points to rankings for Amazon, film critics, hotel ranking, etc. Working out of a popular culture imagination helps tie the known to the unknown. I have studied voting methods and so appreciate mixed methods to achieve the fairest outcome. When working for the Green Party of California as a delegate for Sonoma County, we held "Green Talks" at a local facility that were quite popular. Perhaps this work could continue in my new place of residence in Oregon? What will also be needed is to abolish the Electoral College!
I'm so glad this series helped you, Morgan! I also just moved to Oregon, and STAR Voting is gaining a lot of popularity here. I would love to work with you on voting method reform! If you're interested, send me a message at sass@equal.vote
Thoughts on STV? It's been what people have been pushing for here (Wales) and we might be able to get it soon but any by-elections would be IRV and therefore terrible (Anything is better than AMS obviously).
Sorry my reply took so long! STV was one of the best candidate-list proportional representation voting methods we had a century ago, but today, it's fairly mediocre in comparison to newer methods. Check out the interview I did with Dr. Keith Edmonds where we talk more about this issue: ruclips.net/p/PLxUt-9wjMS9VLgyYlUJ4XCYItwiEnI2Jj
@@SassInYourClass Alas, even though the parliamentary committee headed up by their own party recommended STV, they had the numbers with another party to ram through closed 6 seat d'hondt (Jefferson method) lists that will favour the governing party for the assembly so there will be no candidate representation. I'm sure they'd have found a way to proportional STAR voting or anything else we proposed because they were only really out to entrench their power. They decided to let county councils use either STV or FPTP at least but nobody is going to implement STV that is under the control of a single party with all the politicians already elected under FPTP. I thought we had a real chance for change but politicians will rig it if they can at every level. Thank you for your response anyway and I will watch the videos but it's an academic excercise now 😅.
RCV needs the ability to rank all candidates. If voters don't rank all candidates (or the ballot doesn't allow a full ranking), and all of the candidates they ranked are eliminated, it's the same as a normal runoff where their acceptable candidates are eliminated in the first round so they don't vote in the runoff.
As a long-time proponent of IRV, you have managed to change my mind with your explanation of STAR voting! Thank you. While I found the compilation video instructive, these segments probably worked better on TIKTOK because there would be time in between to think about what just happened. Knowing the acronym for STAR voting was helpful and also points to rankings for Amazon, film critics, hotel ranking, etc. Working out of a popular culture imagination helps tie the known to the unknown. I have studied voting methods and so appreciate mixed methods to achieve the fairest outcome. When working for the Green Party of California as a delegate for Sonoma County, we held "Green Talks" at a local facility that were quite popular. Perhaps this work could continue in my new place of residence in Oregon?
What will also be needed is to abolish the Electoral College!
I'm so glad this series helped you, Morgan! I also just moved to Oregon, and STAR Voting is gaining a lot of popularity here. I would love to work with you on voting method reform! If you're interested, send me a message at sass@equal.vote
Thoughts on STV? It's been what people have been pushing for here (Wales) and we might be able to get it soon but any by-elections would be IRV and therefore terrible (Anything is better than AMS obviously).
Sorry my reply took so long! STV was one of the best candidate-list proportional representation voting methods we had a century ago, but today, it's fairly mediocre in comparison to newer methods. Check out the interview I did with Dr. Keith Edmonds where we talk more about this issue:
ruclips.net/p/PLxUt-9wjMS9VLgyYlUJ4XCYItwiEnI2Jj
@@SassInYourClass Alas, even though the parliamentary committee headed up by their own party recommended STV, they had the numbers with another party to ram through closed 6 seat d'hondt (Jefferson method) lists that will favour the governing party for the assembly so there will be no candidate representation. I'm sure they'd have found a way to proportional STAR voting or anything else we proposed because they were only really out to entrench their power.
They decided to let county councils use either STV or FPTP at least but nobody is going to implement STV that is under the control of a single party with all the politicians already elected under FPTP. I thought we had a real chance for change but politicians will rig it if they can at every level.
Thank you for your response anyway and I will watch the videos but it's an academic excercise now 😅.
RCV needs the ability to rank all candidates. If voters don't rank all candidates (or the ballot doesn't allow a full ranking), and all of the candidates they ranked are eliminated, it's the same as a normal runoff where their acceptable candidates are eliminated in the first round so they don't vote in the runoff.
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