Comment by nerdsniper
Comment by nerdsniper a day ago
Approval voting is also worth considering, where you put a checkmark in the box for any candidate you’d be okay with. Advantage over ranked choice is that communicating the scoring to citizens is simple: “$CANDIDATE received the most checkmarks.” Whereas with ranked voting, the person who gets the most #1’s might not win and that can confuse some citizens.
Approval voting would result in “the okay-est” candidate winning rather than anyone towards an extreme winning in the primaries. Works well when there are a lot of fairly similar milquetoast candidates that split votes, like the Republican primaries of 2015.
> Whereas with ranked voting, the person who gets the most #1’s might not win and that can confuse some citizens.
Not ranked voting, ranked voting is still very broken. Rated voting. Approval voting is a rated voting system.
Score voting: Rate each candidate on a scale of 1 to 10.
Approval voting: Rate each candidate on a scale of 0 or 1.
Score voting (or STAR) is generally better and the argument that people are going to be confused by "that thing they use at the Olympics" is nonsense, but approval voting is fine if you want to silence the complainers while still using something that basically works.