I'm also unclear why the Nevada people are panicking instead of using whatever system worked in 2016 (or 1960, for that matter) to tabulate the votes.
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From a voting theory point of view, it allows voters to express more of a ranking of their preferences than a simple plurality ballot (though only within their precinct).
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Would ranked-choice voting of the kind they use in Maine remove this advantage entirely?
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In theory they help with party building and advantage candidates with more intense support. In practice, they’re just exclusionary messes
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Caucuses are strictly worse than ranked choice voting.
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The best argument I’ve heard is that they allow for the emergence of dark horse candidates, since having passionate, committed supporters is much more important (and theoretically valuable) in a caucus. Whether or not they actually do that is up for debate, of course.
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It's basically just tradition. A ranked-choice ballot is an unambiguous improvement, a single-choice ballot problematic but still probably better Lot to say about the different values/system involved, and how people misunderstand it, but that misunderstanding is reason enough
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the secret-ballot point-count system of democracy is newer than people think, and the forum/town-meeting/Thing/Moot system of it far more traditional, but people only think of the former now, so most US systems being the former crudely grafted onto the latter is a real problem
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I've heard the argument that it encourages conversations with your neighbors (fellow caucus attendees) providing for a more informed ballot. I've never been involved in a caucus so I can't say if this is true.
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The viral video of the homophobic caucus attendee learning that Mayor Buttigieg is gay is both evidence that "more informed" may be true and that it may not be a good thing.
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