I am not against it, but I am curious how ranked choice voting would help. I am of the mind that everyone who votes left will still probably put the Democrat at 1, while everyone who votes right will put the Republican at 1. If the majority is still for one or the other, what do the other rankings even mean? Maybe I’m missing something about how it works?
The other ranks just mean someone you wouldn’t mind winning too, more or less. You’re ranking from favorite to least favorite.
Your favorite is number 1 but if you had to pick another one it’d be number 2, and if you had to pick another one it’d be number 3, etc.
The idea is that as you go down there might actually be candidates with considerable overlap between all the voters, and that also gives chances to more than just 2 people. 3rd parties would actually have some viability in this system.
Here’s a quick example: 50% of voters put candidate A as their number 1 choice and the other 50% but candidate B as their number 1 choice. But out of the totality, 70% put candidate C as their second choice. In a ranked voting system C would win even though it wasn’t the favorite of either, because it was the candidate a big majority was willing to compromise with.
Of course in reality how the choices are tallied varies and it’s not that simple but I hope I managed to illustrate the point.
I am not against it, but I am curious how ranked choice voting would help. I am of the mind that everyone who votes left will still probably put the Democrat at 1, while everyone who votes right will put the Republican at 1. If the majority is still for one or the other, what do the other rankings even mean? Maybe I’m missing something about how it works?
The other ranks just mean someone you wouldn’t mind winning too, more or less. You’re ranking from favorite to least favorite.
Your favorite is number 1 but if you had to pick another one it’d be number 2, and if you had to pick another one it’d be number 3, etc.
The idea is that as you go down there might actually be candidates with considerable overlap between all the voters, and that also gives chances to more than just 2 people. 3rd parties would actually have some viability in this system.
Here’s a quick example: 50% of voters put candidate A as their number 1 choice and the other 50% but candidate B as their number 1 choice. But out of the totality, 70% put candidate C as their second choice. In a ranked voting system C would win even though it wasn’t the favorite of either, because it was the candidate a big majority was willing to compromise with.
Of course in reality how the choices are tallied varies and it’s not that simple but I hope I managed to illustrate the point.