In multi-round elections (like RCV), moderate candidates gets squeezed out early! 1st-place votes are split, leading to a final round between two extremes. Voters prefer the moderate, but the system eliminates them. Result: Polarization wins. #CenterSqueeze #ElectionReform

Almost half of Frey voters only ranked him, far more than any other 1st choice. Davis 1st choicers were the most generous, 84% of them ranked 3

Just updated RCV.report with Minneapolis Minnesota elections!

Hi Utah, Welcome to the Family! ✅ Approval Voting coming to an election near you... 📍In Salt Lake County: Herriman, Magna, West Jordan, West Valley City  📍In Tooele County: Tooele, West Desert 📍In Utah County: Eagle Mountain, Fairfield, Lehi, Bluffdale  #approvalvoting #vote

🚨 The government is preparing a new Elections Bill, promising to strengthen Britain's democracy. But it currently fails to address the elephant in the room: the voting system. We're asking the Democracy Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social to fix this. Add your name and share ✍️

🚨 NEW: Cross-party MPs publish ‘ready to go’ blueprint for electoral reform commission — FPTP “threatens to undermine the resilience and stability of our democratic system”, @appgfairelections.bsky.social MPs say — The group is calling on ministers to greenlight its plan Exclusive story 👇

📜 We're pleased to publish a Terms of Reference for a National Commission on Electoral Reform ⚖️ This is a ready to go plan to independently review how Parliament is elected, promote a national conversation, and build consensus on a way forward 🧵 1/3

We have the first ever cast vote records from an approval voting election! ✅✅☑️✅ The St. Louis data is conclusive: voters embraced the system's flexibility. 33% approved multiple candidates, debunking bullet voting myths. felixsargent.com/democracy/20...

This day in 2022: "Is There a Better System Than Ranked-Choice Voting?" "No rankings, no runoffs, no assigning each candidate a numerical score between 0 and 99"  https://www.wweek.com/news/dr-know/2022/08/07/is-there-a-better-system-than-ranked-choice-voting/ #approvalvoting #votingreform #fptp

📊 The complete 1976 Hansard Society Commission on Electoral Reform is now on @archive.org I've converted the PDF to markdown/epub with: ✅ Verified election data tables (1918-1974) ✅ Clean formatting and structure ✅ Full accessibility @makevotesmatter.bsky.social @electoralreform.bsky.social

1. I'm stunned to find myself writing this, but I can suddenly see a route to PR It's partly the rise of Reform, of course, but partly about the Labour rule-book NEW COL explains www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/707...

I want a sticker set of all the emoji. Not some, all of them. Why is this hard?

I’m worried that RCV is an intentional wedge issue that stops voting reform. Alternative Vote (an RCV method) failed in the UK because of its complexity. No matter how much we want proportional representation the UK, RCV will cause it to fail. Our opponents are counting on it.

The electoral reform movement is hamstrung by so much of the good work being done behind closed doors, and not wanting to celebrate until we win the war. We need to be loud about every meeting. Every letter to the editor.

RCV is a tax on the electoral reform movement.

Approval.vote is down while working with @electionscience.bsky.social to renew the domain, but in the meanwhile it’s available on approvalvoting.report

Honestly, this is so confusing. Makes me much prefer Approval Voting instead of ranked choice voting.

There are a lot of interesting details for scholars to explore about basically everything, but for practitioners you get the most value out of the basics: — Moderates do better at elections — Free trade makes most people better off — The past was poorer

Please consider approval voting instead. It's much simpler for voters, and also simpler to count. It's vital that our country gets rid of first past the post, and RCV is too complex-seeming to get the popular support it needs. Approval voting is an easy sell "vote for whoever you approve of"

As North Dakota Law makers move to repeal Approval Voting in Fargo, its an important time to revisit why the citizens voted to fix their elections in the first place. Learn more here https://electionscience.org/education/fargo-success #fargo #approvalvoting

Early voting is underway in St. Louis. This is the third election cycle in the city using approval voting. 

It’s great to see local efforts like Utah Approves pushing for voting reforms like #ApprovalVoting! It can make such a difference in making elections more representative and fair. Senator Thatcher’s advocacy for it is a big step forward. How do you think this will impact future elections in Utah?

Westminster's First Past the Post system blocks voters from getting the results they want. The Electoral Reform Society's new report: www.electoral-reform.org.uk/a-system-out... @electoralreform.bsky.social @electionscience.bsky.social

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