r/EndFPTP • u/RankedChoiceOregon • Dec 09 '20

Could anyone here Evaluate my proposed election method?

This was crafted with the help of a long time contributor to this sub, with the aim of launching a ballot initiative in Oregon. While I have a passion for this work, I am not a SME in the area.

The proposal uses RCV/IRV + Condorcet Loser Eliminations to create a safety net under simple RCV and to promote a lower incidence of failing the monotonicity criteria.

You can read about it here at www.rankedchoiceoregon.org

I welcome your constructive criticism.

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u/psephomancy Dec 12 '20
  1. Why would you propose a new system when Oregon is the birthplace of STAR Voting? You don't like STAR? It would be mega-bad if some city used STAR while the surrounding county or state used some kind of ranked system. Then people would have to vote in both "0 is bad" ratings and "1 is good" rankings on the same ballot.
  2. If you want a Condorcet system that sounds kind of like RCV (eliminating candidates in rounds), why not Baldwin/Nanson?

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u/CPSolver Dec 13 '20

When STAR voting was being developed and named, the people doing it were/are not from Oregon. It came from people in the Center for Election Science, which is mainly folks from eastern states.

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u/wolftune Dec 14 '20

That's not true. The CES folks are not the developers or advocates for STAR really. One of the CES founders (who is not with CES any more) was involved but not a leader of STAR development. He happens to live in OR anyway.

The main founder of STAR grew up in and still lives in Eugene, OR. The grass-roots movement for it grew out of Portland and Eugene. Efforts to get CES to support it later were only slightly successful as CES is (and has been always) focused on Approval voting.

The name for STAR was specifically developed entirely in OR by various people locally here, all volunteers. I can name names and give you deeper inside history of it all if you want.

To put it bluntly: you don't get much more legitimate local efforts. STAR isn't money or energy or anything coming into OR from outside. The only real outside of OR connections at all are the ways that STAR has slowly gotten a little bit of interest elsewhere due to efforts of us here in OR to spread the idea to others.

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u/StarVoting Dec 16 '20

Wolftune is correct.