bliblaAnti-Fascist voting
We need ranked choice voting, so you can vote for who you actually support without throwing your vote away.
Ever since reading about some strange properties of RCV, which ended up being displayed in Alaska’s first election using it I’ve been a bit suspect of it. Systems such as STAR voting and approval voting seem better.
That’s not strange, that’s how it works. Especially if there’s a strong ‘anyone but Palin’ contingent.
The GOP was maybe mad, but more importantly to me the people who actually study voting systems for a living were “mad”. Ignoring that the outcome was maybe what I would have wanted, it is definitely pathological that you can hurt a candidate by voting for them. Quoting the Wikipedia:
The election was also a negative voting weight event, where a voter’s ballot has the opposite of its intended effect (e.g. a candidate being disqualified for having “too many votes”). In this race, Begich lost as a result of 5,200 ballots ranking him ahead of Peltola; Peltola also would have lost if she had received more support from Palin voters.
What do you find wrong with those other systems? Approval voting is used in the UN and neither seem to have some of the pathologies of RCV.