The inadequacy of plurality voting is particularly profound when it comes to our primary elections. Unlike general elections, primaries often have three or more viable candidates competing for a party's nomination and plurality voting is profoundly unsuited for this purpose. And ranked-choice voting is not much more suitable; that is the topic of this article.
8/21/2021
What is Right about Plurality Voting?
We come naturally to the use of plurality voting. It is simple and it is what our cave-man ancestors surely used. In fact, its use seems to have been used by pre-human species and even among species we do not credit with much intelligence. This article encourages the adoption of a better way to vote.
9/9/2021
Voters Need to Understand How Votes are Counted
Whether we like it or not, psychological factors play a big role in our elections. And voters are often ignorant about details regarding how their votes will be counted. Some examples are provided in this article. Included here is a numeric example to show how tallies change in a score election depending on how the numeric scores are assigned; this illustrates how the choice affects the tally but not the outcome.
10/11/2021
Can We End the Two-Party System?
That IRV will end the two-party duopoly seems to be more a hope than a plan. In contrast, there is a clear plan for BAV to naturally undermine the polarized two-party duopoly. To emphasize this important point is the singular point of this article.
1/2/2022
We would expect elections, even more than polls, to make every effort to collect accurate data, but IRV exhibits considerable shortfalls in this respect. Most notibly, this is due to the inability of IRV voters to identify equally preferable candidates.
1/30/2022
This is merely a link to another series, at Substack, on the topic.
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