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Voters Want a Third Party. They Just Don’t Want Musk in Charge of It. (truthout.org)

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Nearly two in five Democratic-leaning voters would consider joining a non-Musk-led third party.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

As always: Ranked Choice is a specific use of ranked ballots, and it kinda sucks. You want a Condorcet method like Ranked Pairs.

Say an election goes like this:

40% vote A > B > C.
35% vote C > B > A.
25% vote B > C > A.

Plurality says A wins, because Plurality sucks. You don't even need a bare majority. You just need everybody else to split up.

RCV says C wins: B has the fewest top votes, so they're eliminated. The race becomes 40% A > C versus 60% C > A. Better... but still wrong, because 65% of people would prefer B > C.

Condorcet methods like Ranked Pairs get that right. They model every runoff: A vs B is 40-60, A vs C is 40-60, B vs C is 65-35. B wins every 1v1 and is obviously the best candidate according to these voters. The supermajority prefers B.

And of course Approval Voting is just letting people check multiple names, and it somehow matches Condorcet results when enough people vote. Because you are unique... just like everybody else.