I won’t try to argue against ranked-choice here, but I don’t think it addresses the biggest national issues like polarization effectively.
We know that plurality voting tends to squeeze out moderate candidates. Different ranked-choice systems have different properties. People often use “ranked choice” to mean “instant runoff voting” which is unfortunate, because IRV is a bit of a mess. Approval voting has most of the benefits, fewer of the downsides, and is a lot easier to explain to voters.
Are you calling approval voting a ranked choice system here? I guess technically it consists of ranking every candidate either first or second equal, but it’s a, uh, counterintuitive categorization.
That comment was a little rushed, sorry. Approval voting isn’t a ranked-choice system. There are other ranked systems besides IRV though, such as Borda or Condorcet.
We know that plurality voting tends to squeeze out moderate candidates. Different ranked-choice systems have different properties. People often use “ranked choice” to mean “instant runoff voting” which is unfortunate, because IRV is a bit of a mess. Approval voting has most of the benefits, fewer of the downsides, and is a lot easier to explain to voters.
Are you calling approval voting a ranked choice system here? I guess technically it consists of ranking every candidate either first or second equal, but it’s a, uh, counterintuitive categorization.
That comment was a little rushed, sorry. Approval voting isn’t a ranked-choice system. There are other ranked systems besides IRV though, such as Borda or Condorcet.