• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    17
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    4 months ago

    Ranked choice doesn’t mean proportional elector distribution. It means you vote for candidates in order of preference, and if your preferred candidate is last, your vote goes to your next preferred candidate.

    Ranked choice does have it’s own problems, but it’s better than first past the post. Star voting improves the formula quite a bit.

    • snooggums
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      4 months ago

      It is far more likely that a blue state will switch to ranked choice first, and the fewer non-red states there are the more red states have influence on the electoral college, so it is important to push for this everywhere. That is all I am saying, and nothing more.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 months ago

      I think you are speaking to a disinformation person, who is deliberately introducing some nonsense-logic into the equation as a reason not to use RCV, in the hopes of fooling some people into not wanting to do it because they don’t want to hurt the Democrats.

      I thought they were just confused about proportional elector distribution vs ranked choice, too, up until just a second ago, and then it all made sense. They’re still blandly doubling down on their misinterpretation and ignoring what you’re saying and just repeating the original message, too.