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What's your favorite voting rule? e.g. FPTP, single transferable vote, (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 11 months ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Now obviously we all espouse ranked voting, but the most popular rule—the single transferable vote—is known to sometimes eliminate candidates for getting too many votes, which is what happened in the 2022 Alaska special election (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonicity_criterion#Runoff_voting for an explanation of how this happens).

So, which voting rule do you like the most? I'm new to this world, but so far the Dowdall system seems like a good compromise.

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was for maybe 15 years very vocal about approval voting, but I've been swayed by a lemming this year for STAR voting.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ooh, that's very interesting. Like the Borda count though, a party with a base can win the election by running a ton of similar candidates, but I guess that's already illegal for most of the US election systems.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It does need fine tuning for purpose, but I admire highly expressive voting systems. Condorcet would be good too.