Follow Maine's Example?

[Danuru]

Something I've been meaning to bring up for a while, but am now finally getting to it. During the election, Maine changed how voting will work calling it "Ranked-Choice Voting," where people can vote for candidates in order of preference, making sure a vote isn't "wasted" if you cast it for a third party. Personally, I think this could be a big step in breaking the two party system, and put some fear into democrat and republican politicians. This alone outweighs and potential disadvantages in my opinion. I would like to know others thoughts on it though.

Here's a link talking about it some: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/us...ting.html?_r=0

[Tyrianth]

Ranked ballots are a step up from FPTP but still not by much. They tend to be biased towards centrist parties. I'm more of a fan of MMP voting. Though I guess MMP wouldn't really work for US presidential elections.

[Ripster42]

Previous thread here.

[Xeranath]

This is also known as a Single Transferable Vote, in my country of New Zealand. In our local election, ie city council, health board etc, this system is used, whereas our national elections ask voters to nominate a local candidate and a political party.

I like the idea of it, but I've not really seen any hard data to show its efficacy.

Anything would be better than your electoral college, wouldn't it?

[Annoying]

Previous thread here.

Not gonna close this one. Yeah, there's another thread about it, but it's far enough back that a new thread isn't cluttering the first page. Feel free to look at previous discussion, though.

[Activi-T]

We (the UK) had a referendum on the Alternative Vote system in 2011, a particularly refreshing display of government and media telling us all that it was too complicated a system and we were all too stupid to figure it out.

Ideally countries would adopt proportional representation if they wanted to more accurately reflect the views of their people. Ultimately it leaves people dissatisfied as it more often than not would rely on coalitions to get laws passed, you know how people can be about compromise though.

[Lady Dragonheart]

I think that it would improve the position of many third parties, which I am definitely for.

[Ave07]

Hmm... its like someone made a video about this.

[alexkeren]

Something I've been meaning to bring up for a while, but am now finally getting to it. During the election, Maine changed how voting will work calling it "Ranked-Choice Voting," where people can vote for candidates in order of preference, making sure a vote isn't "wasted" if you cast it for a third party. Personally, I think this could be a big step in breaking the two party system, and put some fear into democrat and republican politicians. This alone outweighs and potential disadvantages in my opinion. I would like to know others thoughts on it though.

Here's a link talking about it some: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/us...ting.html?_r=0

Can be done at state level, not for president considering how you have to amend the constitution and all.