Sweden, Germany, Colombia, Australia, etc. Ranked/Alternative/Proportional voting. We should have multiple choices without fear of voting for less popular options being useless. With our current system we basically can't vote for third parties.

[–] Vqhm@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Let's not pretend that ranked choiced voting in Oz didn't elect Tony Abbott, the prototype for Trump's one liners and spewing hate.

Every answer to whatever question: "Stap the boats"

Don't get me wrong. I'm all for it. But it's not some silver bullet that will make all the party candidates turn into Jesus.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

It takes a while for the effects of party decentralization to take hold. The underlying party structure is at the core of two-party systems. RCV is just one incentive (a big one) to restructure parties to be more democratic and diverse, instead of coalescing into monolithic amorphous blobs. Along with Gerrymandering laws, campaign financial regulation and voter civic education. It all has to work in concert to dismantle the social control version of democracy.

[–] RichCaffeineFlavor@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm skeptical of ranked choice voting being a panacea after watching Eric Adams get elected in New York

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Wtf NYC, electing a cop to be mayor ? Surely there were better options.