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Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by rbanffy on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:59PM (#24945042)
Brazilian living in Ireland here. The system used in Brazil doesn't help with weeding out extremists (as it's painfully obvious right now). Ranked voting, OTOH, heavily punishes rejection, which results in reducing the size of the Overton Window in politics.

The two dominant parties here are both center-right and are barely distinguishable to the point the Green Party formed a government with them. This is undesirable if you want quick changes, but exceedingly good if the aim is long-term multi-generational stability.

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Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by marcosdumay on Friday October 30, 2020 @02:09PM (#24945157)
It does help, but not much. It basically enforces that the most rejected candidate does not win. But it does nothing to the second most rejected one.

Of course, ranked and approval voting are much better choices.

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