Ranked Choice Voting Facts
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Ranked choice voting is gaining popularity across the country, from small cities in Utah to congressional districts in Maine. But how does it make elections better and give voters more power?
Ranked choice voting gives you the option to rank candidates in order of preference. If your first choice can’t win, your vote is instantly counted for your second choice.
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The two party system hates this one simple trick
Yeeep, explains the Republicans in Maine tried to reverse it to continue the use of one choice, ignore the other and use the spoiler/wasted vote tactic. They also say it's "confusing" and I guess the main two party voters and electors will just put Red or Blue once or over and over again and say that it's confusing to use or whatever kind of misinformation they're spewing out.
I find it easy to understand than choose one person and have it automatically thrown out the window and get labelled as a person who just wasted their time and resource on a candidate who will never win any election. Like seriously, I've seen the Maine Sample Ballot and it looks easy to me. i.imgur.com/SS1pfKU.png
@@madden8021 agreed. Ludicrous to me to suggest Americans couldn't understand something as simple as numbering canidates by preference. If list articles and videos have prepared us for anything, its that
Nope, RCV is also subject to Duverger's Law (mathematically enforced Two-Party system)
@@tatechristensen2182 What a disgusting strawman. A voting system is NOT only what you do in the polls. There is so much more going on behind the scenes than '1,2,3...'
@@alanivar2752 It's not a strawman if it's an actual arguement being used (see the link to an article from the Maine-based Bangor Daily that argues, in part, exactly that). However, there are pros and cons to every type of voting system, and RCV certainly has its cons. Personally I'm just for almost anything that isnt FPP. RCV is far from my first choice, however, I think RCV is the most practical to get passed in the US.
bangordailynews.com/2020/08/05/opinion/contributors/ranked-choice-voting-makes-elections-unnecessarily-complex-and-confusing-2/?
A far better way to choose the people's choice versus the corporate choice in races with three or more choices.
sharing! This explanation makes it pretty obvious why most people prefer this once it is explained.
This should be obvious. It'll also save millions of dollars and much wasted time with primaries
Readers should understand that there are alternatives to IRV that provide equality.
Like single transferable vote with multimember districts? Or mixed member proportional representation?
I wish FairVote didn't seem so laser focused on rcv sometimes (instant runoff elections in single member districts), but I'm glad there have been some successes.
RCV doesn't eliminate splitting, complicates tactics in multi-candidate races, with convoluted and unexpected results. Approval Voting is much simpler, cheaper, excels with numerous candidates, and by all criteria, AV is superior to RCV.
Consider 2020 Dem primaries under RCV: Sanders and Warren likely split votes 1 and 2 (and 2 and 1). Neither second choice would be counted until the first choice was dead last in any round before another candidate reached majority. Both might have lost, precisely because they split the most popular votes.
@@danielsykes7558 PR is fantastic and could be implemented in local councils. I suppose states could elect Congress with PR and wider or no districting. That might fix or eliminate gerrymandering. But PR is a bigger or at least separate issue.
The single post Plurality could easily be replaced with Approval Voting.
@@vegahimsa3057 No, RCV doesn't eliminate vote splitting and just reduces it. But RCV is better than Approval Voting on a couple of criteria, like Later No Harm. If you provide approval to other candidates beyond your favorite, that could help them beat your favorite -- but in RCV, later rankings can never hurt your favorite because system won't look at them until and unless your favorite is eliminated.
Another key criteria is that RCV will never select the Condorcet Loser, the candidate that would lose a head-to-head race with every other candidate. It is possible for Approval to do so because the ballots don't contain enough information to identify the Condorcet Winner or Loser.
Another issue is the Burr-Chicken Dilemma identified by Jack Nagel. There are no incentives upon candidates to differentiate themselves on ideological grounds because they don't need strong support, *only* broad support. Which means candidates may instead try to beat rivals by asking their supporters to *withhold* approval from their main rival(s), which can be polarizing.
That being said, the main issues with Approval occur when people are candidates, and when selecting non-people (like friends family picking a movie/restaurant, or legislatures selecting a bill to pass), I think Approval Voting works great, and our family uses it all the time like that.
Later no harm is contrived. It's meaningless if/when voters are motivated to top rank any but their sincere favorite. "Favorite betrayal" => "later no harm".
YEAS PLEEZE
The more choice the better
Very for this.
Who's here because of an online vote for college?
So all elections would be combined between the two party candidates instead of only getting a ballot for your identified party? I don't think the Party in power (Democrats) will ever agree to this system, but you never know. I am skeptical that it will be universally adopted. Obviously the current voting system is flawed and the more important issue is voter roll accountability. How do you keep the rolls "clean" by not allowing ghost voting, dead people voting, etc?
voter roll accountability is a very important issue but so is this. In the current format, the 2 corporate owned parties are the only ones that most people would consider because they are the only ones that can win....who cares that they no longer truly believe the policies they represent? With ranked choice, we could all vote for our first choice first.
The progressive left are the ones pushing this.
RCV is used in some capacity in: Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Virginia, Maryland, New York, Vermont, and Maine.
It is outright banned in Tennessee and Florida.
@@Golladan It's interesting because ranked choice voting seems good on paper and suggests that everyone votes for who they want but it still has issues and seems to create new problems and I imagine in 50-100 years we'll start to see that unfold but ranked choice voting breeds polarization and group think. In an ideal system people will be voting for the candidates in order of perceived merit but in practice people vote for their chosen candidate and then whoever supported and partied up with that candidate, often ignoring the merit and focusing on tribalism. I guess that's a good thing for the people that believe the other side is pure evil and hatred and trying to destroy democracy but it's a valid criticism, even if that criticism can also be applied to basically every other voting system out there. I guess my point overall is that these different voting options seem too good to be true and more reflection should be done before adopting one over the other or blindly following a new scheme.
I'm actually surprised so many Democrats support RCV. On one side you'd think that was a good thing, except because of our reactionary politics it's turning Republicans agaisnt RCV. If Republicans supported RCV, then Democrats would call it racist like they already tried to do in Richmond VA. I fully support RCV but we may already be past the point of no return. This election reform should have been implemented a generation ago.
So what happens with the electoral college?
Depends on how each state handles it.
Love this short great video.
Yes. Thank you for the video. Would you please make another video explaining Ranked Choice Voting that doesn't have any background music? The background music is distracting for people on the spectrum, people who speak English as a second language, people with learning challenges, people who are listening to the video speeded up or slowed down, or other concerns. It would be very nice to have a simple, non-propagandistic version of this video. Thank you.
Counterpoint to RCV: the current corrupt mayor of NYC. I suspect that is more a matter of having no recall and replaced method couple with this. Say if the winner fails to perform his/her duties, the crown will go to the runner-up. Like in a beauty pageant.
Socialism at its finest.
Republicans and Libertarians deserve more choice
I don’t like it.
The vanilla ice cream DID have the most votes with 40%. The chocolate had 35%.
yes but the point is that more than half the votes (60%) did not choose vanilla first.
It would be just as easy to cheat.
Australia uses this system, and Ireland too but with multimember districts
So simple: Pizza vs hotdogs vs burgers. Thats how chocolate ice cream wins. Its as easy as 1,2,3.
Easy way to cheat
Noone anywhere in the world wants it
Right
You've asked everyone? What's the support for your opinion?
@@kimsmith8160 except everyone with above a 4th grade education.
"No uneducated person in the world wants it"
Great way to get fake candidates
So jewy.