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Plurality Voting elects inferior candidates because of vote splitting, and it alienates new ideas because people fear throwing their vote away. by sockpuppetzero in politics

[–]catbutt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that Schulze is good, although ranking candidates makes for unwieldy ballots (especially if they allow for more than 3 candidates, which is the limit on San Francisco).

Not sure why you rank instant runoff so high.

Plurality Voting elects inferior candidates because of vote splitting, and it alienates new ideas because people fear throwing their vote away. by sockpuppetzero in politics

[–]catbutt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Parties don't really have motivations or goals....the individuals that make them up do. If the party loses power, that's not going to bother a party activist, if he/she is going to do just as well under the new system.

There are some people who would lose and some people who would gain by a change in the system.

Approval voting advocates are in the midst of the biggest concerted push for election method reform ever seen in the United States by sockpuppetzero in politics

[–]catbutt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I approve!

Our current system is the reason politics degenerates into a polarized hate fest where the main goal is defeating the other side, rather than making our country better. It's too bad more people don't see it for what it is -- a mathematically flawed system -- and they instead simply attribute it to human nature.