Ranked Choice Voting
Discussions center on the pros, cons, and strategic issues of ranked choice voting (RCV/IRV), often comparing it to alternatives like approval voting, score voting, STAR, and referencing Arrow's impossibility theorem.
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Ranked choice voting is the only path to this.
Why is Instant Runoff Voting the worst possible voting method?
Ranked choice was the error. You want one of the cardinal voting systems like STAR.
something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting?
Look into ranked choice voting. That could help.
Ranked choice voting appears to be an easy solution, am I wrong?
Ranked Choice Voting (aka Instant Runoff Voting) is the single worst of the very many seriously proposed ranked ballots method; it retains most of what is bad about FPTP. It is somewhat easier to tally than the best (in terms of the logic of who wins) ranked ballots methods (methods satisfying the Condorcet criterion), but not particularly good even on that among all ranked ballots methods, e.g., it can be improved in that dimension by just adding all preferences of the next rank until a candida
That's not a flaw. One reason I prefer Approval Voting is that it makes this clear. Approval Voting works the same as RCV but without ranking. Vote for all candidates you approve of.The "bayesian regret" is almost as good as RCV, but it's much simpler and doesn't suffer from the misperception you highlighted.https://electology.org/approval-voting
Ranked choice voting is still fundamentally flawed [1]. Voters will be incentivized to vote strategically in this system rather than according to their preference, just as they do now.[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...
Is ranked choice voting not susceptible to strategic voting?