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[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 13 points 1 month ago

Veritasium did a great presentation on the different voting systems and there really isn't a perfect one, but first past the post is definitely not even close to the "best".

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 month ago

Since I don’t like Veritasium, I’ll suggest the CGPGrey videos:

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 2 points 1 month ago

He does great videos as well.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

I would assume it's the worst. The only thing it has going for it is that it's easy to understand.

[-] the_artic_one@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

It's no "throwing birdseed at your candidate of choice in order to attract the freedom eagle to them".

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Veritasium didn't really give the full picture though. He was only really looking at rated based voting systems, but there are more systems out there than that.