Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois

Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where? by bostonvaulter2 on Friday January 17, 2020 @09:25PM (#22081773)

This is why I really wish we had ranked choice voting (or approval voting). That way we'd have more political parties and a healthier political climate.

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Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where? by milesskorpen on Saturday January 18, 2020 @12:00AM (#22082399)

Ranked choice voting isn't what's stopping a third party. Majority-wins / first-past-the-post is.

There's ranked choice voting in San Francisco, and there's not a new party.

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Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where? by dragonwriter on Saturday January 18, 2020 @02:13AM (#22082910)

> Ranked choice voting isn't what's stopping a third party. Majority-wins / first-past-the-post is.

Uh, ranked choice / IRV is a different system than majority / FPTP. Having the former means not having the latter (for any given office.)

But state and federal offices don't use RCV, and local offices are formally nonpartisan, so there are no partisan offices that SF's use of RCV effects.

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Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where? by milesskorpen on Saturday January 18, 2020 @07:35PM (#22088510)

Maybe I used the wrong terminology. More specifically, I think our issue is with winner-take-all, rather than proportional representation (see: all(?) parliamentary systems).

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Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where? by ClayShentrup on Saturday January 18, 2020 @02:06AM (#22082879)

https://asitoughttobe.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/score-voting/

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Re:Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where? by greglindahl on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:40PM (#22082312)

We have something different in California, apparently you don’t know about it? Hard to have a conversation when folks are unaware.

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