You want learn speak good about Ranked Choice Voting? 😂 The Oregon RCV Advocates are holding several “Speaker’s Bureau Training”sessions later this month. The first one is Wednesday, April 24 from 6 to 7 pm Virtually via Zoom!
@bh@madcodger meanwhile, an actual "your vote is always counted" method is on the ballot in Eugene, and this fall Portland is going to learn the hard way that they've been duped by fairvote's backdoor lobbying and misinformation when the vote splitting still happens because there are 15 candidates running on the same platform for 3 seats. SF and NYC mayor results would seem to have demonstrated that, or that RCV has been promising to fix it since Nader -- they're just stalling. starvoting.org
"This is a classic example of a problem that could be solved by ranked-choice voting, a tested, nonpartisan reform that discourages this sort of gamesmanship and more accurately represents what a majority of voters want."
@peterdrake And abolish the Senate while we’re at it!
My concern is the converse, actually. I’m afraid when people see how weirdly RCV can behave, they’ll paint all voting reform with that brush. No one wants to be Charlie missing the football again. I could go on about all of RCV’s shortcomings compared to many other voting methods, but I should probably just write a paper or blog about it. This one does a good job summarizing some of the key points, though:
Too bad the #Portland#CharterReview commission went with their feelings about how #RankChoice works, rather than listening to their voting methods research committee, who had done the homework and recommended #STARvoting. Now we've got the business association's pet conservative electeds proposing to make 3 proportional seats per district into 2 single-winner elections, where RCV/IRV #RankedChoice will deliver status quo results and money-talks manufactured consent, like it has for 100 years.🙄
STV #SingleTransferableVote, while not terrible, is not as representational of group consensus as proportional star voting, but the single-winner version (recently branded RCV or IRV) does not give good representative results.