Re:The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human r...
by nrclark on Sunday October 18, 2020 @10:39AM
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Agreed that we need voting reform in the US, badly.
It's also unlikely to ever happen, because the only ones with the power to do it are the ones that would be displaced.
Re:The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human r...
by burlesona on Sunday October 18, 2020 @12:29PM
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Thanks for sharing STAR, I hadn’t seen it before. How does that interact with proportional representation?
We desperately need a voting system that allows you to express your preferences honestly, and ideally across all candidates, without hurting the outcome. By far, score voting systems are the best at that. Of those, I recommend STAR voting (Score Then Automatic Runoff), because it has some actual momentum[1] (it also has some theoretical advantages, but both it and vanilla score voting, and even Ranked Choice with a Borda count, are such a massive improvement over the status quo that it doesn't matter which we pick).
[1]: https://www.starvoting.us/ -- no affiliation, just convinced by the research (edit: which you can mostly find linked from https://www.equal.vote/)