Re:Alameda County admits tallying error in ranked choice vot...
by dragonwriter on Sunday January 01, 2023 @12:19AM
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> Ranked choice voting is, to my knowledge, the most representative process to elect.
It is not. “Ranked Choice Voting”, as a commonly used name for the specific ranked ballots method also known as “Alternative Vote”, “Instant Runoff Vote”, and a couple other names, is not “the most representative process” by any measure. It’s not even part of the best class of ranked-ballots single-winner methods (Condorcet methods), and single-winner elections of any kind are less representative than systems which provide proportional representation through the use of multimember constituencies (whether candidate-centered systems like Single Transferrable Vote in multimember districts, or whole-legislative-body systems like Party List PR.)
The name is even chosen to avoid consideration of competing ranked-ballots systems by creating the impression that it is the system for elections with ranked ballots.
It is not. “Ranked Choice Voting”, as a commonly used name for the specific ranked ballots method also known as “Alternative Vote”, “Instant Runoff Vote”, and a couple other names, is not “the most representative process” by any measure. It’s not even part of the best class of ranked-ballots single-winner methods (Condorcet methods), and single-winner elections of any kind are less representative than systems which provide proportional representation through the use of multimember constituencies (whether candidate-centered systems like Single Transferrable Vote in multimember districts, or whole-legislative-body systems like Party List PR.)
The name is even chosen to avoid consideration of competing ranked-ballots systems by creating the impression that it is the system for elections with ranked ballots.
> No vote is wasted.
Plenty of wasted votes in RCV/IRV/AV.