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12. Everybody can rank the same number of candidates.

Reply to dickthegrouch (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 14, 2025, 07:52 PM

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If you happen to LOVE one of the major party candidates and that candidate wins, well good for you, you got your FAVORITE candidate. For those who prefer a slightly different set of policy positions but will grudgingly support the major party candidate, then when the votes are tallied their first vote is essentially thrown out. Only one vote is actually COUNTED for each voter.

But that discarded vote isn't completely vaporized - the first round rankings will be visible to the winner, and could send a message that there is strong support for positions different than those taken by the major parties. In the current system, that information can't be gathered at all from election data.

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We need Ranked-Choice voting. [View all] RandomNumbers Thursday OP

The problem is SocialDemocrat61 Thursday #1

"a desire to punish democrats for not being perfect." OAITW r.2.0 Thursday #3

Not Sanders voters I was thinking of SocialDemocrat61 Thursday #4

Sometimes extreme left meets far right. OAITW r.2.0 Thursday #6

Here in WI in 2016, Stein received more votes that Trump's margin of victory elocs Sunday #17

Horseshoe theory Mountainguy Sunday #24

The only extremists I know in politics are all from the right. OAITW r.2.0 Sunday #28

Well, know them or not Mountainguy Sunday #29

Could you provide names? Because 1 got a huge list of anti-socialists that backed Trump. OAITW r.2.0 Yesterday #30

luigi mangione Mountainguy Yesterday #32

Who the fuck is cheering this guy's murder? OAITW r.2.0 Yesterday #33

I would say "some" 3rd party voters who rationally SHOULD vote D RandomNumbers Friday #10

Honestly SocialDemocrat61 Friday #14

If RCV gets just half of 3rd party voters to vote D as their second choice RandomNumbers Sunday #15

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas SocialDemocrat61 Sunday #19

Let me rephrase. WHEN you get just ONE 3rd party voter RandomNumbers Sunday #20

Unless they put down the republican as their 2nd choice SocialDemocrat61 Sunday #21

Yeah then they weren't going to vote D in the current system anyway RandomNumbers Sunday #22

Sorry but SocialDemocrat61 Sunday #25

It will and it does. In Maine - it's the anti-Paul Lepage voting initiative. OAITW r.2.0 Yesterday #31

Have it in Maine. Keeps Republicans from running 3rd Party candidates and throwing elections. OAITW r.2.0 Thursday #2

Exactly RandomNumbers Friday #11

But that effectively gives some people 2 votes dickthegrouch Thursday #5

There could be 4 names on a ballot. 1 D, 1R, 1 left indie, 1 right Indie. OAITW r.2.0 Thursday #7

Everybody can rank the same number of candidates. RandomNumbers Friday #12

Here in NYC, ranked choice voting gave us Eric Adams . . . . markpkessinger Friday #8

Well ... there will always be bad people who run for election RandomNumbers Friday #13

Thanks for the replies RandomNumbers Friday #9

Rank choice voting? Maybe in local or state elections, but I doubt we will be having elocs Sunday #16

You have a point. But getting RCV in local and state elections would be a win. RandomNumbers Sunday #23

Is there any data on how well the electorate understands or wants RCV? n/t elocs Sunday #27

By next March, we'll be lucky if there's still any voting at all 0rganism Sunday #18

Do we really need to complicate voting? most don't have a clue how voting works as it is. Srkdqltr Sunday #26