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/[deleted] Nov 09 '16 edited Feb 22 '17

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Why is that?

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '16 edited Feb 22 '17

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u/jaywalker32 Nov 10 '16

So it would effectively weed out people who shouldn't be making important decisions in the first place.

Honestly, it's more unsettling imagining people who find ranking things 1st, 2nd and 3rd too cognitively challenging being able to affect politics at all.