So I have been debating on who to vote for in the new mods vote over here and it got me thinking about how I would prefer if I could vote for a few different accounts.
It reminded me of the video series by CPG Grey on voting, a good watch for more information (youtube link), and it got me wondering if for similar votes in the future if we should use something more similar to Single Transferable Vote?
As a quick example; if there are 5 candidates and 3 eventual winners, you rank your votes, but you also don’t have to list everyone. You could vote for 1, 3, or all 5, you just rank them in order of preference. Then when the vote tally comes, you just take any leftover votes from the person with the least votes and apply them to the voters second choice, etc…, until you have your winners.
I think it would really help in votes similar to the mod one, because that would let me vote for the 2-4 accounts I would be interested in seeing become a mod, without my one vote getting lost just because only 4 other people voted the same, or in cases where the vote is very close, if that makes sense.
It could be a little over complicated, but was curious if anyone else had similar feelings about the vote, or any future ones that are not just yay / nay.
Preferential/Ranked Choice voting is great. It removes the bias away from the most extreme options and allows people more agency by not forcing strategic voting: i.e. “I like the 2nd choice best but I have to vote for the 1st choice because it is more popular and otherwise the 3rd or 4th choice will win)”