Washington Post Recommends Ranked-Choice Voting for D.C.

The Washington Post has this editorial, suggesting that the District of Columbia choose its officials using Ranked-Choice voting. Thanks to Rob Richie for the link.


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Washington Post Recommends Ranked-Choice Voting for D.C. — No Comments

  1. There are PROBLEMS with ALL election methods with 3 or more choices.

    Due to —
    IF choice C shows up, then

    C may beat both A and B — C > (A>B)
    C may lose to both A and B — (A>B) > C
    BUT C may beat A BUT lose to B (aka circular tie) — C>A>B>C [requiring a tiebreaker in advance]

    There is BOTH a YES/NO and a number ranking (1,2,etc.) part in voting on multiple choices.

    Thus there should be both voting YES/NO and number ranking the choices.

    In any large election there would have to be computer vote counting.

    In the meantime pending REAL Democracy and utopia —

    P.R. for legislative bodies.
    App.V. for executive/judicial offices.

    — before it is too late and the gerrymander MONSTERS in Deficit City start Civil WAR II with their gerrymander laws and/or EVIL powermad mouths.

  2. Proportional representation through multimember districts is preferred, but in its absence, instant runoff voting in a single member district is better than plurality voting, hands down.

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