Maine has rank choice voting. In our congressional several years ago the candidate who received the second largest number of votes won. Rather than having each local town count their votes and send it to a central point, the ballots are collected, recounted according to a confusing formula and weeks later someone tells us who won.
'The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.'
Maine has rank choice voting. In our congressional several years ago the candidate who received the second largest number of votes won. Rather than having each local town count their votes and send it to a central point, the ballots are collected, recounted according to a confusing formula and weeks later someone tells us who won.
'The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.'
Joseph Stalin
Residential parking won't matter when the reverse watermelons take the cars away.
The UK should really move to ranked choice voting. The fact that one party has a huge majority in Parliament
based on such a small vote share suggests first past the post system doesn’t work very well with the vote dispersed among many parties.