And Colorado proposition 131

We've already found the flaws in RCV and STV.

Ranked Choice has some serious flaws.

The first and strangest is the monotonicity criterion.

Ranked Choice is the only system that fails it. What it means is that you can actually improve a candidate's chance of winning by lowering their ranking on your ballot.

Oh yeah, it also still has the spoiler effect, where a third party can fuck over an election. It's just slightly harder to achieve. But the mechanism that forces two parties remains.

It's also hard to count and thus more susceptible to malicious actors.

Some of us have been screaming about these flaws for years.

There are better options. Approval is one. It's dead simple. The ballot instructions are as such. Do you approve of the candidate, mark yes or no next to any, all or none of the candidates listed.

Candidates with the highest approval win.

Approval is immune to the Spoiler effect. It would be a direct improvement vs anything being done in the world today.

And it's still not the best system out there.

That's likely to be STAR.

Immune to the Spoiler effect and also protected vs clone candidates and such, while allowing the voter to show clear preferences.

It also is constructed in such a way that it gets around some of those "one person one vote" laws put in place by the anti-voting reform people.

they were elected in like 40 years ago, then made it their career to stay there. so yeah, they may have won an election recently, but being an incumbent and household name in the area gives them a pretty massive advantage over anyone new running against them sadly.