Show HN: RankedVote – SurveyMonkey but focused on ranked-choice voting

Re:Show HN: RankedVote – SurveyMonkey but focused on ranked-... by fdsjgfklsfd on Friday October 07, 2022 @08:48AM (#33120500)

There are many forms of "ranked" and there absolutely is consensus that the form that constantly gets pushed in the US is no good. It is marketed with lies and doesn't live up to any of its promises, as we just saw in Alaska. It didn't prevent the spoiler effect, it didn't make it safe for voters to rank candidates honestly, and it didn't choose the candidate preferred by the majority. Pretty much any other proposal is better.

I genuinely don't understand why people are so hardheadedly loyal to this one centuries-old poorly-designed voting system. Just because it's the first one they heard of? I don't get it.

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Re:Show HN: RankedVote – SurveyMonkey but focused on ranked-... by crazygringo on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:34AM (#33121919)

If you're claiming there's consensus RCV with IRV is no good, you're going to have to show sources. Because everything I know tells me that's patently false. There's no such consensus in academic, there's no such consensus in the political world, there's no such consensus anywhere.

You say pretty much any other proposal is better, plenty of other people say the other proposals mostly look even worse.

I don't understand why you ascribe this to "hardheaded loyalty" instead of people just genuinely disagreeing with you, and that they have good reasons for it.

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