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2010-03-24 09:25:29
Hurricane2k9
Pendulous Sweaty Balls
+1,538|5987|College Park, MD
http://www.approvalvoting.org/

The idea of approval voting is rather than picking just one candidate in the elections, you can pick multiple. The candidate with the most votes wins.

A lot of people theorize that approval voting would help make government much more bipartisan... the website explains it better.

What do you think? Should the US move to an approval voting system?
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2010-03-24 09:46:46
DrunkFace
Germans did 911
+427|6967|Disaster Free Zone
Sounds fucking stupid. Why not use preference voting, at least that makes sense.
2010-03-24 09:47:04
SEREVENT
MASSIVE G STAR
+605|6393|Birmingham, UK
There's big talk about a new system over in the UK too. Labour promised a refurendum on it if they win the election exactly like they promised it 13 years ago...
2010-03-24 12:20:57
Hurricane2k9
Pendulous Sweaty Balls
+1,538|5987|College Park, MD

DrunkFace wrote:

Sounds fucking stupid. Why not use preference voting, at least that makes sense.
Can you elaborate on both points?
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2010-03-24 12:28:48
Marlo Stanfield
online poker tax cheating
+122|5449

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

DrunkFace wrote:

Sounds fucking stupid. Why not use preference voting, at least that makes sense.
Can you elaborate on both points?
It's a voting system where you vote for who you would rather have. So if Democrat, Republican and Green all were in an election you would vote for which ones you would prefer in power. So it's like


Republican - 1 (preferred]
Democrat- 2
Green -3

If the Republican you voted for doesn't have enough votes to take majority (I think that's it, I've forgotten the small details) than your vote would default to democrat, and if they don't have enough votes your vote would default to Green.

Odd little system.
2010-03-24 12:30:49
SEREVENT
MASSIVE G STAR
+605|6393|Birmingham, UK
if the person with the most votes doesn't get enough, then any second choice of his/hers from every single paper are added on
2010-03-24 12:48:47
Hurricane2k9
Pendulous Sweaty Balls
+1,538|5987|College Park, MD
I don't see how that's better than approval voting.
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2010-03-24 13:07:23
mikkel
Member
+383|6887

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

I don't see how that's better than approval voting.
The outcome should be more or less the same in a polarised political climate. If voters on both sides are willing to compromise towards the middle, then approval voting will end up causing people to vote their own primary candidate out of the election.
2010-03-24 13:18:42
mcminty
Moderating your content for the Australian Govt.
+879|7007|Sydney, Australia
If the Republican you voted for doesn't have enough votes to take majority (I think that's it, I've forgotten the small details) than your vote would default to democrat, and if they don't have enough votes your vote would default to Green.

Odd little system.
It's not quiiiiiiite that.

Lets recreate the scenario a little more realistically, and make it (in the Australian context):

1. Greens
2. Labor
3. Liberals 

Once the votes for a seat are counted, and they determine that no candidate has enough for the majority, then the candidate with the least number of first preference votes (ie. in last place) has their votes redistributed to their second preferences. And so on and so on until one candidate has a majority.

So here, the greens are a minority party (and a bunch of fucking loonies that have fucked over my state's infrastructure planning in the last 20-30 years...). Once they have the fewest votes, this particular "vote" would see their second preference given to the Labor party..
2010-03-24 15:57:08
Turquoise
O Canada
+1,596|6691|North Carolina
I would agree that America needs preference voting.

Although, over here, we actually call it Instant Runoff Voting.

 

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