Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛 I'm not a fan of IRV, but vote splitting and non-competitive elections is an even worse problem. The best solution is a non-partison top two primary that uses approval voting and allows candidates to list 3 top endorsements from parties/advocacy groups on the ballot.

Brianna Wu Star Trek is inconsistent about the federation's economy.

Robert Wilson Brain Rot Politics Destiny Vaush 🇵🇸 Emma Vigeland too.... get people to vote

Mark Frohnmayer STAR Voting Good luck. I don't live in Oregon, but I really hope this passes.

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Micah Erfan I'd actually prefer approval voting to have a runoff. More specifically, I'd like a non-partisan top two primary that uses approval voting.

Robert Wilson I’m Approval pilled and have become even more so since the episode - Micah

Econoboi I say fuck Israel until they stop building settlements.

Econoboi I'm surprised Thomas didn't vote against this.

Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛 It does not. It still only allows you to vote for one candidate. Vote splitting is the exact same. The only difference between Fusion and a CA, WA style top two FPTP primary is that they filter the ballot by party. Top two APPROVAL VOTING primary would be better.

Robert Wilson Pesse Store You're the first person to mention this. Thank you

Jake Broe Authoritarian regimes that have nothing else going on for them love optics that mean nothing. That is why they dope their female athletes to the gills until they look like men just to win Olympic medals.

Jack Santucci Robert Wilson Center for Ballot Freedom Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛 United Kansas Washington Journal Why though?
Politicians tell people to do all kinds of stuff. Doesn't mean they do it. Is there any research or polling that can back that up with evidence?

Jack Santucci Robert Wilson Center for Ballot Freedom Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛 United Kansas Washington Journal The summary at least doesn't appear to agree with you.
> Multi-mark ballot structures can resolve the dilemma of disempowerment by allowing voters to rank or grade multiple parties or candidates per contest

Micah Erfan Robert Wilson The problem with thinking of them in isolation in STAR is that if you don’t give someone the top score you are disenfranchising yourself relative to other voters in the first round. So from the bat you are induced not to “score” honestly, and the incentives get very confusing.

Robert Wilson Micah Erfan Voting for 2+ candidates equally when you have different preferences between them (sometimes strongly different) will never sit well. It’s not expressive enough. On the flip side, STAR voting is too expressive, to the point of being tedious. RCV strikes an intuitive balance.

Felix Sargent 🗳 🧪 🪑 Robert Wilson Center for Ballot Freedom Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛 United Kansas Washington Journal Re: why. See above. Re: research. Yes.

Micah Erfan I think getting a Condorcet winner is the gold standard and a runoff is more likely to get that. Also a runoff allows more time to focus on the two candidates in depth. Approval voting gets two good candidates for the constituency and the runoff is a fine tuning.

Tristan Tate If Ukraine just surrendered, Ukrainian men would be conscripted and die in Russia's next war.

Robert Wilson Alejandra Caraballo Exactly. He wanted to get rid of the people as a whole, but commonly couched it in terms of merely wanting to eliminate an 'ideology' to have a veneer of plausible deniability. Just like with this freak and trans people.