What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
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Re: What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
#2What's great about RCV (not IRV specifically) is that if the ballot data sets are retained, you can write software to recount them using other RCV algorithms. I'm curious when we'll next have a Condorcet Winner that isn't the IRV winner.
Re: What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
#3What's great about RCV (not IRV specifically) is that if the ballot data sets are retained, you can write software to recount them using other RCV algorithms. I'm curious when we'll next have a Condorcet Winner that isn't the IRV winner.
Interesting – I wonder how much of that data will be published by NY… definitely sounds interesting to explore.
Re: What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
#4King County is exploring using RCV.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/king-county-to-c...
Re: What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
#5There was a helpful visualization/animation of how ranked choice voting works in the NY Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/nyregion/ranked-cho...
Re: What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
#6What's great about RCV (not IRV specifically) is that if the ballot data sets are retained, you can write software to recount them using other RCV algorithms. I'm curious when we'll next have a Condorcet Winner that isn't the IRV winner.
Since voting data are anonymized by construction, it should even be fine to publish as is.
Re: What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
#7This is a good video explaining how it works on a general level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z2fRPRkWvY
Really hope it catches on.
Re: What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
#8Will this make New York more or less left wing? I'm actually curious.
Re: What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
#9I love RCV where we are.
* You can vote for the random third party candidate without worrying about throwing away your vote.
* You seem to get a bit more moderation where we are if you also have an open primary / no primary type voting which gets really nice.
California does top two past the pole of any party inf the general which means even republican votes can matter in a dem on dem election (common out here) or dem votes can pull back things in a R vs R general (rarer but does happen).
Re: What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
#10What's great about RCV (not IRV specifically) is that if the ballot data sets are retained, you can write software to recount them using other RCV algorithms. I'm curious when we'll next have a Condorcet Winner that isn't the IRV winner.
I don’t like rank choice voting because it can result in someone with fewer first place votes than the first or second candidate to win if the conditions are right.
We’ve seen surprise results where an obscure candidate has won when too many top choices split the first choice votes and someone relegated to the floor vacuums up all the throwaway votes (people think they have to “spend” all their votes)