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Originally Posted by Mblake81
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What is ranked choice voting?
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A simple fix to a complex problem.
For example, a major and complicated problem is that poor people don't get a voice. Sure they vote, but in the end they don't get what they want. If the policy that comes down matches what they want, that's an accident because rich people just happened to want that too.
There is an interesting study.
In short what they did was examine policy preferences of people in various economic strata and then they checked later to see whether there was any legislative movement on their concerns. And what they found was that if you ain't rich, the government isn't going to do shit.
Another huge problem is PACs and the bundling and that awful decision to let corporations be people and masquerade corruption as free speech.
More complications: People don't give a shit about policy and they vote with their wallets. You can see that in the exit polls this year; what was most important? Money. The economy. You couldn't throw enough world peace at them if it meant their 401k is going to suffer.
I know people are looking for a simple technical fix because that's easy, but the problems are more structural and probably need a full reno or at least knocking down the kitchen wall for a more open concept feel.
In any event RCV is in use here and there and has never produced results significantly different from the regular plurality method.
11-06-2020, 02:45 PM
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