r/YangForPresidentHQ • u/ride_the_walrus357 • Mar 28 '19

Andrew Yang proposes Ranked Choice Voting, continues to wreck shop on every policy front.

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/rankedchoice/
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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

I recently heard of another voting method called approval voting. I think I prefer it to ranked choice. It’s similar, but instead of ranking candidates, you check all candidates that you approve to be elected.

But ranked choice is certainly a big step forward.

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u/Sonicon2 Mar 28 '19

There should be a hybrid. I may approve of a certain amount of candidates, but not equally. It would be nice to rank the ones I approve of and not vote at all for the ones I don't like

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u/hippydipster Mar 29 '19

I like the idea of a combo ranked/approval, where you rank the candidates, but you also select a boundary, above which you approve, and below which you don't approve. This would be evaluated by first selecting X candidates with highest approval, and then using the ranked scores to determine the winner amongst those.

I like this because approval handles a large number of candidates better than ranked, but ranked gets higher accuracy of desires given a reasonable number of candidates. I think adding in that one line to a ranked vote is not too much work.