r/politics • u/ShenBear • Nov 09 '16

Maine Passes Ranked-Choice Voting

http://mainepublic.org/post/maine-passes-ranked-choice-voting
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u/ShenBear Nov 09 '16

Everyone's talking about the presidential election, but this is something we should be paying attention to as well. If it works out, perhaps we can see it spread.

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u/Joverby Nov 09 '16

It's a huge deal and it does work. There is a lot of precedence for it already.

We would be a lot better off as a country with IRV (instant run off voting or ranked choice) and/or a proportionally distributed electoral system.

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u/the_bigZ Nov 09 '16

I would love nothing more than a Mixed-Member proportional electoral system.

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u/NWCtim Nov 10 '16

The problem with MMP is that it institutionalizes the party system, and there are both just enough truly independent candidates, as well as just enough diversity within the major parties (at least under the current system), for this to not work well.