• RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I think ranked choice voting would give us RFK as president

    Edit: that was assuming we had these same candidates only as ranked choice obviously we would have more candidates

    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      Honestly my knowledge of ranked choice voting is that it works better for reps other than the president, and that our basically one guy wins it all form for presidential elections feels like ranked choice would work less. I’m willing to be wrong. I’m not sure if I actually like systems where the majority party picks the head of state, but it does feel like ra ked choice voting makes it matter more there.

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      6 months ago

      You gotta consider how many viable candidates aren’t throwing the hat in the ring because there is no chance for them to get even close thanks to the current system, plus they’d be labeled as spoilers.