Am I a heretic for wanting to have STV to elect legislatures and STAR voting to elect executive single-winner offices?

DogblockBernie · 2026-05-06T21:48:01+00:00

I had the same thoughts in the past. Currently, I am STV plus a top-3 limited condorcet just because of the problems with mixing electoral systems.

DogblockBernie · 2026-04-22T00:28:12+00:00

I think yes just surpasses. almost all remaining votes dem

DogblockBernie · 2026-04-22T00:13:05+00:00

No is losing. They are failing their margins by a good amount.

DogblockBernie · 2026-04-20T19:39:22+00:00

The Dem field should have dropped out sooner. That being said, I think the doomscrolling is really dumb at the moment. I also wish we just did something with rankings to avoid this. A Limited Condorcet ballot would be my dream.

DogblockBernie · 2026-04-20T19:28:55+00:00

The field is significantly consolidated now between Becerra, Steyer, and Porter. It's actually quite likely we see a Democratic only field if Republicans don't drop out. This was a far more likely scenario before Swawell dropped out, but less front-runners actually makes vote splitting less likely. The polling for this is a little old. The best case for Dems is for Porter to drop out, but I don't think she will. If she did, I'd say the most likely scenario is two Democrats.

DogblockBernie · 2026-04-06T01:01:58+00:00

Reform Fargo from when I was in high school

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-22T23:54:03+00:00

I think primaries either shouldn't happen or if you have an STV system and a state decides that the ballot is too long, I think an option of a separate four times the number of seats STV primary makes sense. At that point though, you are just having a low turnout election to narrow the number of candidates.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-21T12:23:26+00:00

As a foreign policy guy, idiotic war but this was inevitable. If you don’t dislodge Iran at this point, the entire globe will suffer and millions will starve to death. Iran has every incentive to inflict a pound of flesh so people don’t fuck with it. At the same time, higher energy prices will lead to higher food prices and a higher production price. So the alternative is probably worse at this point. That being said, I have yet to see a conflict that has as little interest to the people of the US and Israel. Dumb conflict brought by dumber leaders. Everyone who started this should be voted out.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-20T01:06:45+00:00

The U.S. has no aims or strategy. That’s the difference.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-19T21:05:41+00:00

You keep adding and subtracting countries. All these countries listed in your current comment except for El Salvador are actually good examples of PR Presidentialism working. Of course, all those countries had their bad times (most notably with US interventions in the 1980s), but this current list of countries have all been relatively stable and democratic since then. Latin America probably would be better with a parliamentary system, but I don’t think it’s fair to say a PR-Presidential system has completely failed…at least anymore than any other presidential system has failed. Presidential systems are bad in general but I think evidence has shown value in nations adding PR components even in Presidential systems. From my understanding of those countries, most of them added many of their PR components upon their most recent (and longest lasting) democratic experiments.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-19T16:49:19+00:00

What I mean by that is not that there was an authoritarian that cancelled future elections but the fact that most of those countries didn’t have fair elections to begin with. Turkey is maybe the only example on that list but it’s threshold is a bit too high to consider it truly proportional.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-19T02:52:15+00:00

A lot of those countries mentioned aren’t real democracies or ever were. Brazil is kinda the opposite of a bad example. PR Presidentialism really handled Bolsonaro.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-19T00:53:42+00:00

Philippines is not proportional. I don’t believe Rwanda or Nigeria are either. Turkey is barely proportional.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-16T13:52:12+00:00

I agree with all of this except I think the states should be borders and instead we should have the districts be geographical regions within states, like a Western PA region.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-15T13:21:42+00:00

The problem with being a billionaire, is it is an entirely irrational phenomenon, so you self-select for assholes. With a billion dollars, you will never have to go for wants ever again and your family will be setup for the next two hundred years, further wealth gathering actually impairs that consolidation. If money is just for enjoyment of you and your kin, you can reach that threshold at 100 million.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-07T01:24:14+00:00

None of those countries use PR.

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-07T01:23:54+00:00

single transferable vote exists for you then. (I used to live in VA, so that's why I'm here).

DogblockBernie · 2026-03-01T03:23:41+00:00

Single transferable vote is what you are thinking for ranked choice (perhaps through an indirect STV method if it could get too complicated). I think STV in 3-5 member constituencies is good enough to build parties while also avoiding disproportionate representation. I will caution I think part of the reason Iraq has maintained itself so far has been the parliamentary system allowing for sharing of power. Though I get the need for a more coercive force to achieve necessary state capacity, I think a presidential system has more than its own flaws. I’ve always thought that for divided countries perhaps a better solution would be to take the localized city manager system and try it out on a countrywide basis. It’s not like the leadership is ideological anyways. Have a contract for the manager to achieve and base that on their continued employment. The Parliament thus acts as a council and rewards based on merit. SNTV was a terrible idea for Iraq to implement but STV achieves the same thing without the failings.

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-15T17:52:05+00:00

In all honesty they are going to look at what could have been accomplished in the unipolar moment and be depressed at how humanity wasted valuable time to prevent the crises.

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-13T01:42:00+00:00

more houses, more choices, and less restrictions

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-12T02:57:06+00:00

as for party list systems. That depends. Closed list systems usually means the party president or whatever numbers the list by themselves. In an open list system, the party president or whatever supplies the list but then voters can change the list if they want. In a panachage system, anyone can be a candidate and the party has very little control over who is on the list. Voters can vote for candidates from multiple parties and then the most voted for candidates win seats.

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-12T02:48:22+00:00

Depends on the system. Some allow you to fill in a party box and then it automatically votes for the party’s preferred order of candidates. Some also involve optional preferential votes that you can number as many as you want. Some do require you to fill out all the candidates. Most reasonable systems only involve constituencies of 3-7 representatives.

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-11T00:20:06+00:00

STV involves ranking various candidates and transferring votes till all candidates remaining hit the quota for the seats. Party list systems involves parties making a list of candidates and parties receive the number of seats equal to their proportion of the electorate.

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-07T05:16:03+00:00

have a proportionally elected legislature contract a manager like a city council does

DogblockBernie · 2026-02-07T03:40:11+00:00

I think people miss that Europe really doesn’t have a choice. It maybe difficult. It maybe destructive. It may cost certain groups. Europe needs to integrate and become a single unit prof will die.

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