Joand315: Wouldn't ranked choice voting fix most of the problems caused by our current system of selecting candidates through primaries.

A lot of liberal strategizing is based on the correct assumption that liberals won't hold their politicians accountable in meaningful ways as long as there is always a Greater Evil™ to worry about. If there were no Republican Party, the Dems would have to create one.

I honestly believe that a lot of conservative strategizing is based on the correct assumptions that liberals would never be as ruthless as they are.

The two party system is bad, a skeet.

We should have more viable political parties, and we need constitutional reform to change our voting and representation systems to make that possible

Wouldn't ranked choice voting fix most of the problems caused by our current system of selecting candidates through primaries.

RCV would definitely be an improvement, and it would make third parties viable for Congress over time. Systems like Proportional Representation would also help make third parities viable, but not something we could do with the way we elect Representatives under the constitution.

And, while I think RCV can do a lot of good in enabling third parties, I’m pretty dubious it can be used effectively for the Presidency, given the EC and the way elections are run entirely separately in each state.

So I think RCV could allow a different party to eventually break into the race, but I think with the EC, we’ll always have this state by state first past 270 system lurking under the hood

If you live in the US, do make sure to ask your local ranked-choice voting group if they are also working on enabling proportional RCV!

Can you tell me more about proportional RCV? I haven’t heard about it but it obviously sounds interesting! Is there a site where I can read more?

We had a system with a similar idea once in Illinois In the State House of Representatives each district had three Representatives. One of the Representatives was from the minority party of that district. You always had someone from your party representing you no matter where you lived in the state.

Got it, so it’s something like a multi-member district, where the share of each district is determined proportionately based on an RCV ballot? That makes sense, but that would still require a constitutional amendment, right?

Something like that. Doesn't each state decide by what process they can send electors to the electoral college?

That’s pretty much spot on! And no it wouldn’t require a constitutional amendment, it would just require changing one law that limits 1 rep to 1 district in federal elections. Here’s a explainer of PR-RCV: youtu.be/l8XOZJkozfI?...

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