Ranked choice voting is an amazing electoral innovation that lets you mark one of the two major party candidates as your “first choice” instead of voting for them outright.
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From ranked choice voting to end-to-end encryption and wood apples, I tend to like stuff a lot until I try it and realize it is way overhyped
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What we really need in California is to combine ranked-choice voting with ballot initiatives! Vote for your top 5 preferred bond issues or constitutional exemptions for companies employing gig workers, ranked in descending order of preference.
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Is “rank these candidates in order” really an unreasonable level of complexity though? People don’t need to understand how their cars work to drive.
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It's a big deal in a crowded, fractured field though like NYC mayoral elections.
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Yeah, I bet in the 20-way races it's a whole different ball game. I still would love to see a ballot design that made it easier to vote this way
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"Number your candidates in order of choice" is not a complex cognitive task.
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You would be amazed at what people do
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What are you on
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This is simply the standard reactionary argument against universal suffrage
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Isn't it easier to explain as "if your first choice would be functionally meaningless, we consider your next choice, ad infinitum"?
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It's not easy to explain without making it sound like some people get more say than others! I thought it was easy until I tried to do it
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