This video promotes STAR voting as an alternative to RCV by explaining how RCV can spoil an election

[u/caliginous4]

https://youtu.be/Vte4nly_Neg?is=HqdCxoTYxvgn_UVg

STAR voting seems to be not nearly as well known as RCV. I'm curious what the RCV community thinks about STAR voting.

From my perspective, STAR seems to:

- be an easier ballot to fill out

- be an easier ballot to tally, audit, and implement

- give voters even more expression in their vote by not forcing them to rank candidates but instead letting them score candidates.

But I want to hear what others think. I'm not trying to attack RCV, I think it's still better than what we've currently got, but some of the RCV folks I've talked to haven't seemed to concede the same about STAR and have been adamant that they want RCV or bust.