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Psephomancy

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Voting method reform enthusiast

Good voting methods

  • STAR
  • Condorcet RCV
  • Approval+Runoff
  • Balanced Approval
  • Approval

Bad voting methods

  • FPTP
  • Two-round Runoff
  • Supplementary Vote
  • Contingent Vote
  • Instant-Runoff Voting / "Ranked Choice Voting"
  • Top Four
  • Final Five

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Ranked Choice Voting doesn’t make third parties viable, either. It uses the same counting method as our current system (tally up people’s first-choice preferences) and therefore suffers from all the same problems, like vote-splitting, spoiler effect, and center-squeeze effect. You can’t fix the problems of FPTP by adding more rounds of FPTP. If you want third parties to be viable, you want real reforms like STAR Voting, Condorcet RCV, or Approval Voting.

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Until ranked choice for president

That wouldn’t change anything. RCV still produces a polarized two-party system.

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Unfortunately the form of RCV used everywhere in the US is Hare’s method, which eliminates candidates based only on voters’ first-choice rankings, which largely just perpetuates all the same problems as FPTP. There are many other better reforms. One of those should become the norm instead.

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