There's a very simple fact to understand. If we institute a voting system which counts Democrats' preferences among the Republicans, Trump's power over the Republican pols ends.
IRV has not reduced Trump's power in jurisdictions using because IRV does not do so. Sure, IRV let's Democrats rank some Republicans higher than others. But that …
There's a very simple fact to understand. If we institute a voting system which counts Democrats' preferences among the Republicans, Trump's power over the Republican pols ends.
IRV has not reduced Trump's power in jurisdictions using because IRV does not do so. Sure, IRV let's Democrats rank some Republicans higher than others. But that does not mean that that preference would be counted. As long as there is a candidate rated higher than a voter's highest rated Republican, that voter's preferences among the Republicans are ignored.
Yes, I do have a preferred methods, and a handful of honorable mentions that also fulfill the criterion I established.
First the preferred method. All voters rate all candidates on a scale from -10 to +10, with ignored candidates getting an implied 0. For each voter, the ratings determine preferences between each pair of candidates, with higher positive scores preferred over smaller positive scores, preferred over zero, preferred over smaller negative scores, preferred over larger negative scores. For each pair, tally the number of voters preferring A over B and voters preferring B over A, with the larger tally winning the pair. The candidate winning all pairs wins the election.
Honorable mentions include: 1) Using the second part, but ratings consisting of ordinal
ranks. 2) Using the same first part, but simply summing/averaging each voter's rating for each candidate. 3) Same day primary and general in which all voters cast a ballot for the party they want to win the election and a ballot in each party's primary for which candidate they would want to win if that party were to win. First the votes for party would be counted, with the primary ballots of the winning party being counted to determine the winner. Not my favorite, but it does count Democrats' preferences among Republicans and Republicans' preferences among Democrats.
There's a very simple fact to understand. If we institute a voting system which counts Democrats' preferences among the Republicans, Trump's power over the Republican pols ends.
IRV has not reduced Trump's power in jurisdictions using because IRV does not do so. Sure, IRV let's Democrats rank some Republicans higher than others. But that does not mean that that preference would be counted. As long as there is a candidate rated higher than a voter's highest rated Republican, that voter's preferences among the Republicans are ignored.
It's been a while since I looked at alternative voting options. Is there one you prefer?
Yes, I do have a preferred methods, and a handful of honorable mentions that also fulfill the criterion I established.
First the preferred method. All voters rate all candidates on a scale from -10 to +10, with ignored candidates getting an implied 0. For each voter, the ratings determine preferences between each pair of candidates, with higher positive scores preferred over smaller positive scores, preferred over zero, preferred over smaller negative scores, preferred over larger negative scores. For each pair, tally the number of voters preferring A over B and voters preferring B over A, with the larger tally winning the pair. The candidate winning all pairs wins the election.
Honorable mentions include: 1) Using the second part, but ratings consisting of ordinal
ranks. 2) Using the same first part, but simply summing/averaging each voter's rating for each candidate. 3) Same day primary and general in which all voters cast a ballot for the party they want to win the election and a ballot in each party's primary for which candidate they would want to win if that party were to win. First the votes for party would be counted, with the primary ballots of the winning party being counted to determine the winner. Not my favorite, but it does count Democrats' preferences among Republicans and Republicans' preferences among Democrats.