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This Year’s Election Bills Focus On Citizenship, Ranked Choice Voting (www.ncsl.org)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

In 2025, Kansas, North Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming enacted total prohibitions on the use of RCV. Arkansas enacted a near-total RCV ban, allowing an exception for military and overseas voters, who may continue using RCV because the timeline between general and runoff elections is sometimes too short for these voters to receive, mark and return a separate runoff ballot. Seventeen states currently prohibit RCV.

Lame - everyone that has it seems to enjoy RCV...

It's also a fuck ton cheaper for running the election since you don't need to run an entirely new election in the event of a tie...

Not a very inspiring article...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I used to be a big fan of RCV (and pretty much anything is better than FPTP), but I’ve become convinced that STAR voting is better than RCV.

There’s no “algorithm,” it’s not confusing, it’s mathematically better, it doesn’t suffer from any of the traps that ranking-candidates systems suffer from. Basically you just give a star rating 1-5 to each candidate and whoever gets the most stars wins. Easy peasy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'll take anything other than FPTP or fascism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Yeah. Nitpicking about how the better replacement isn’t better enough, and so let’s all get derailed into arguments about it, wasn’t what I was trying to do. Just bringing up another also good alternative. RCV seems to be what has the name recognition right now, and generally people like it, so hooray let’s improve.