Worth nitpicking: Fairvote pushes RCV exclusively, and RCV is a mediocre use of ranked ballots. It beats first-past-the-post… but anything would. If you’re offered RCV, take it, but if we’re just talking, stop saying “Ranked Choice” and talk about “ranked ballots.”
The proper use of ranked ballots is a Condorcet method like Ranked Pairs, where the winner is whoever would trounce every other candidate 1v1. There is no “it shoulda been” because mathematically, it was. Ranked Pairs also punishes dishonesty in all but the stupidest circumstances. It is important to minimize opportunities for people to tell themselves they’re suuuper geeeniuses for putting Double Hitler above Preferred Frontrunner for a one-in-a-zillion shot their Favorite Nobody will scrape by with less support. Fundamentally - scraping by with less support is trying to ruin democracy. Don’t fucking do it, you dipshits.
The stopgap is letting people check multiple names.
That’s called Approval Voting - same ballots as now, most votes wins. Somehow matches Condorcet results when enough people vote. There is no good reason it’s not the default.
Worth nitpicking: Fairvote pushes RCV exclusively, and RCV is a mediocre use of ranked ballots. It beats first-past-the-post… but anything would. If you’re offered RCV, take it, but if we’re just talking, stop saying “Ranked Choice” and talk about “ranked ballots.”
The proper use of ranked ballots is a Condorcet method like Ranked Pairs, where the winner is whoever would trounce every other candidate 1v1. There is no “it shoulda been” because mathematically, it was. Ranked Pairs also punishes dishonesty in all but the stupidest circumstances. It is important to minimize opportunities for people to tell themselves they’re suuuper geeeniuses for putting Double Hitler above Preferred Frontrunner for a one-in-a-zillion shot their Favorite Nobody will scrape by with less support. Fundamentally - scraping by with less support is trying to ruin democracy. Don’t fucking do it, you dipshits.
The stopgap is letting people check multiple names.
That’s called Approval Voting - same ballots as now, most votes wins. Somehow matches Condorcet results when enough people vote. There is no good reason it’s not the default.