[Serious] The revolution was successful! The old government is gone. You get to help write the new Constitution. What do you put into it?
[Serious] The revolution was successful! The old government is gone. You get to help write the new Constitution. What do you put into it?
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The voting system will be the Tideman method
While Ranked Pairs sound good in theory, how would you actually sell this method to normal people? Transparency is one of the basic requirements for the acceptability of a vote, and this method will be beyond maybe 70-80% of the American public, if not more.
I don't think using ignorant Americans as a policy standard is going to achieve anything.
Well, a lot of them don't really understand the current system either.
What is important is how are you, as a voter, gonna vote for the person you want to win. In the end, it's either choose one or rank them from top to bottom.
What could be the problem is tallying several million individual votes, let alone putting them into a computer. I wonder what the algorithmic complexity is for this system.
There are voting methods hard to explain, this one is quite easy: "the winner must win against most of the other candidates on a 1x1 comparison"
And to avoid making n² voting rounds, we rank our preferences, the first beats all, the second beats all but the first...
Still overly complicated, especially for American minds who have been trimmed for decades to rate anything scientific as work of the devil...
If people can get sports leagues rules to win a championship, they can get this.
Any ranked choice voting system is subject to Arrow's theorem; range/score/approval voting would be more effective.
"more effective" depends on which criteria you value for your voting system to have.
I value the Condorcet Winner, majority and independence of clones criteria.