This looks like Single Transferable Vote (STV) and is used in Irish parliamentary elections, combined with multi-member electorates.
In New Zealand we use it in local body (Council) elections and for Hospital Boards etc. It is a better system I think but not a total fix. Party funding is still going to influence how much different party messages get out. Comradely, John On Tue, 5 Nov 2024, 11:24 Charles Keener via groups.io, <ckeener20005= [email protected]> wrote: > > It's time for real democracy. > > > > > > > > [image: Stein Ware People Planet Peace] > > If you’re like us, you’re probably sick and tired of hearing the > propaganda that voting for Jill Stein and other Green candidates means > you’re “spoiling the election” or “wasting your vote.” The political and > media establishment promotes “spoiler” hysteria to scare people away from > voting for what they actually want, and to keep people voting for a > two-party system that doesn’t serve their interests. But what they don’t > want people to know is that there’s a simple upgrade to our voting system > that would make “spoiler” hysteria obsolete: Ranked-Choice Voting. > > For years now, polls have shown that a huge majority - roughly 60% - of > Americans believe the two-party system doesn’t represent them, and we need > a new major party. Yet despite their unpopularity, the same two parties > maintain a stranglehold on power by campaigning on the same message: “The > other party is worse, so you have to vote for us as the lesser evil.” > Instead of earning votes by working to improve voters’ lives, they can > extort votes by threatening that the other side will be worse. > > This two-party trap has led our country to a bad place: endless war and > genocide, social and economic breakdown, climate collapse, and a democracy > on life support. But it doesn’t have to be this way, and ranked-choice > voting can change the game. > > <https://www.jillstein2024.com/?e=2ca9ac1b1fa0e97aeeea14035f0f6d5f&utm_source=jillsteinforpresident&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ranked_choice_voting&n=1> > > With ranked-choice voting (RCV) you can vote for your favorite candidates > without any worry about "wasting your vote," "splitting the vote" or > "spoiling" an election. It’s simple: You can rank your 1st choice, 2nd > choice, and so on, and if your 1st choice doesn't win, your vote goes to > your 2nd choice. This process continues until one candidate wins a majority > - and they can't win with less than 50%, which has happened in 4 of the > last 8 Presidential elections. > > Decade after decade of lesser-evil voting has enabled both establishment > parties to do less and less for the people and cater to the demands of > their wealthy elite donors. RCV can break this vicious cycle by freeing > people to vote FOR what they actually want, rather than AGAINST what they > fear. That would give voters real choice and real power. > > In the Green Party, we’ve been fighting for ranked-choice voting for > decades, but the politicians in power refuse to pass it because they don’t > want you to have a real choice. And that’s one more reason they don’t > deserve your vote. In fact, there’s been a concerted effort to suppress RCV > by politicians like CA governor Gavin Newsom, who in 2019 vetoed a popular > bill to expand use of RCV in California. > > Despite establishment opposition, the movement for RCV has made steady > progress, passing forms of RCV in over 50 cities and counties across the > country, as well as the state of Maine. Communities that use RCV have > higher turnout and happier voters. That's because RCV is a win-win-win > for voters: it promotes majority rule, discourages negative campaigning, > and means voters don't have to worry about "splitting the vote." > > RCV is a gamechanger, but it’s also just a first step towards revitalizing > our democracy to empower the people. Another critically-needed reform is > proportional representation for legislative elections, a type of system > used in most democracies around the world where if a party gets 25% of the > vote, they take 25% of the seats. Proportional representation produces > governments that are more representative and responsive, and allows for > healthy multi-party democracy where the true diversity of a society can be > fairly represented. > > As the movement for RCV gains momentum, however, we have to be careful > about attempts to co-opt voters’ enthusiasm for changing the broken system. > In recent years, we’ve seen a well-funded effort to conflate RCV with “Top > 4” primaries, which began in CA and WA as “Top 2” primaries. Now there are > ballot measures in several states that include variants of “Top 4,” which > are marketed as “open primaries,” along with a distorted and diluted form > of RCV. > > The problem is, similar to “Top 2,” the “Top 4” system requires “jungle > primaries” that put candidates of all parties together and eliminates all > but the top 4 vote-getters, which massively tilts the playing field towards > well-funded, establishment-backed candidates with the resources to turn out > a large primary vote. To make things worse, these primaries don’t even use > RCV, making them no better than elections under the existing broken system. > > A better name for “Top 4” primaries would be “limited-choice voting,” when > what we need is the opposite: more voices and more choices. But this > well-funded “reform” appears to be aimed at co-opting the movement for RCV > to further entrench the two-party system and pay-to-play politics. And > while genuine RCV can be a stepping stone to proportional representation, > “Top 4” would perpetuate the system of single-seat elections, which would > be an obstacle to enacting proportional representation. > > For all these reasons, in 2024 *we fully support ballot measures for > genuine ranked-choice voting* in Oregon (Measure 117) and multiple cities > including Washington DC (Initiative 83), Richmond CA (Measure L), Oak Park > IL and Peoria IL; and *we oppose measures for “Top 4” primaries* in > Colorado (Proposition 131) and Idaho (Proposition 1), and “Top 5” in Nevada > (Question 3). > > It’s clearer than ever that we urgently need a voting system that frees us > all to vote for what we want, not just against what we fear. Democracy > needs a moral compass, and that compass is our values. If we can't vote our > values, we're lost at sea. > > It's time to break free from the 2-party trap and bring real democracy to > America with ranked-choice voting. Every vote for our campaign helps to > build the demand for a world where we can all forget the “lesser evil,” and > vote for the greater good like our lives depend on it - because they do. > > Thank you for everything you do to power up this movement for real > democracy! > > In solidarity and gratitude, > > The Stein/Ware 2024 Team > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33325): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33325 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109395618/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
