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Re:The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Inter... by snakeboy on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:01AM (#13983291)
I would think that given different peoples' standards of "approval", ranked-choice voting is much simpler for the genreal public to grasp, and a more useful metric to base an election on.

I suppose we'll see how Maine handers their newly-implemented ranked-choice scheme in the coming election cycles.

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Re:The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Inter... by ClayShentrup on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:04PM (#13987580)
Instant Runoff Voting is actually one of the most complicated voting methods. Approval Voting is arguably the simplest.

This can be objectively measured via metrics like ballot spoilage and precinct summability.

http://scorevoting.net/Lorenzo.html

Here's a read-through of a talk I gave on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q_eMUGCU5U&t=487

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