What is your favorite alternative voting system?
[Notes: • If you vote in one poll in this thread please vote in all of them • For a real world example of what I mean by "Multiround runoff" consider the French system]
What is your favorite alternative voting system? (Poll #2)
[Notes: • If you vote in one poll in this thread please vote in all of them • For a real world example of what I mean by "Multiround runoff" consider the French system]
@mcc I voted for IRV, because I don't want to have to explain Condorcet to the general public for the marginal benefit it offers, though it is better.
Practically, I prefer Single Transferable Vote.
@mcc STV is more of a way to try and give a voice to the political minority in a bunch of electoral districts.
For example, where I live one party has a lock on my electoral district, so about 40% of the population is permanently disenfranchised. STV bundles three districts like mine together so that there's someone to speak for them.
@mcc True. It is entirely for certain types of elections.
However, because the user-facing part of it looks just like IRV/RCV, you can easily combine STV of representatives with IRV of a president without confusing anyone.
@mcc @sagefault yeah, my understanding is that IRV is the degenerate single-representative case of STV.
Here in Australia, we've got a single-member district (federal) lower-house and a multi-member (12 per state, rolling 6 per election) upper house; the voting works the same in both cases, just that the lower-house quota is 50% and the upper-house quota is 12.5%.
(States do different things; for example, in Tasmania we have a 7-member-per-electorate lower house)
@mcc @sagefault I suspect it is a universal condition to be unhappy with one's local politics.
Our local politics is HOLY SHITBALLS better than US or UK politics.
mcc
Jonathan Beverley
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