Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in a Presidential Election

Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by poulsbohemian on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:36PM (#24944770)

I totally get where this makes sense in your system, where the election typically results in a coalition of parties that come together to form a government, but I'm less clear on whether this makes sense in the US system where it is far more winner-take-all.

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Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by gorjusborg on Friday October 30, 2020 @02:26PM (#24945362)

It makes sense in our system because it allows individuals to vote for the candidate they like the most rather than against the one they dislike the most.

Unfortunately, RCV only fixes that assuming that you have more than two candidates on the ballot.

This time there were 4 or 5 candidates for president in Maine, so I voted for the 4 I liked. Felt good, but honestly, the largely two-party system prevented many great candidates from being on the ticket.

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Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by godelski on Friday October 30, 2020 @05:11PM (#24946939)

The US forms coalitions too, and that's actually part of the problem. Both the democrats and republicans have subparties within them. It is really more accurate to think of democrats and republicans as coalitions. That's why we have people like Bernie being so different from Biden. Or Trump, tea party, and neo libs, being far from classical conservatives. All of which are republicans.

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