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Ranked Choice Voting
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Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is a voting system in which voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots. If a candidate wins a majority of first-preference votes, they are declared the winner. If no candidate wins a majority, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and votes for that candidate are redistributed to the remaining candidates, based on the next preference on each ballot. This process continues until one candidate has a majority. Learn more about how it works.
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I've looked into this before, and most of the cases where rcv fails seem relatively unlikely in real elections. I'd be happy with Star, IRV, RCV/IRV ballots with the runoff process modified to be a Condorcet method, approval. So I'll support any initiative to change to any of these systems.
Saying that IRV has glaring problems that make it not much better than fptp seems unsubstantiated.
For any voting system you propose, there are going to be properties you want that it fails, but like, some of those seem more important in real elections than others most of the time, and IRV seems reasonable in most cases.
Am I missing something big?
Yeah, I really don't understand this "it's only 150% better than FPTP, it is HORROR, we need to avoid" point of view.
If there's something else better, then great. Advocate for that. In the meantime please don't try to stop us switching from FPTP to RCV. Some of their other points, that experimenting with thing 1 one time will lead to not wanting to experiment with thing 2 a different time, just seem nutty to me.