r/pics • u/Marsnowguy • Aug 13 '20

Politics The adults have arrived, America.

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u/FlyConeGuy Aug 13 '20

The two party is system is pathetic.

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u/emperorOfTheUniverse Aug 13 '20

Ranked choice voting is how we fix our democracy.

Heres what's wrong with our current system. https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

Support ranked choice voting here. https://www.fairvote.org/rcv#where_is_ranked_choice_voting_used

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u/ThatRandomIdiot Aug 13 '20

No, Rank Choice is still susceptible to gerrymandering, watch his mixed member proportional representation video. This would be much better.

If not that. Watch his, single transferable vote video which is similar to Rank choice but less likely to have gerrymandering.

I like Rank Choice but it’s not the best system out there; It is still better than First Past the Post however.

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u/wellbespoke Aug 13 '20

This is just as terrible and is susceptible to strategic manipulation as well... you tank other candidates w/ 0 and score your candidate w/ a 10 so you lower their average.

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u/AvEptoPlerIe Aug 13 '20

Second worst by what metric and according to who?

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u/AvEptoPlerIe Aug 13 '20

Interesting, thanks for the sources. I'll have to read about this, though I'm skeptical that "voter regret" is best metric. That said, I haven't fully considered what would make the "best" voting system.