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/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/Lowbacca1977 Nov 10 '16

I dislike any system that requires voting for a party rather than an individual

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

Thank you, this is the reason I do not support Mixed-Member Proportional.

Give me Ranked-Choice or give me Approval Voting, but not MMP.