I love reading and thinking about alternative voting systems. Why? I think it’s the counterintuitive notion that making collective decisions is not the same as making individual decisions. There is no perfect system and each system can fail and produce a paradox. But there are more sophisticated systems that what we are used to. They are a bit complex but generally would aggregate our collective preferences well.

Some of the most interesting variants are considered “Single Transferrable Vote”, which is a variation of “Ranked Choice Voting”.

As Australia and the Oscars Go, So Goes Maine?

THE OSCARS USE A MORE FAIR VOTING SYSTEM THAN MOST OF AMERICA DOES

The System Really Is Rigged: Why Winner-Take-All Voting Is Killing Our Democracy

Ranked Choice Voting

The state of Main does ranked choice voting

Single Transferable Vote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote

https://www.opavote.com/methods/single-transferable-vote

Meek (Single Transferable Vote)

https://blog.opavote.com/2017/04/meek-stv-explained.html

Arrow’s impossibility theorem

But, there is no perfect system of voting. Group choice is not like individual choice, every method can fail in different ways.

https://kottke.org/16/11/voting-paradoxes-explained

also we should always vote on paper. It’s the most secure:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/guardian-of-the-vote/544155/

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