• hglman@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Why not say you would support IRV or better, especially multi member districts and proportional results? Why put so much effort in trying to push against the facts about IRV? Frankly if IRV gets put in place and people are not aware of its strange chaotic behavior it will get repealed, which isn’t my conjecture its reality.

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      11 months ago

      Why not say you would support IRV or better, especially multi member districts and proportional results?

      I do and I did. See my last paragraph. Sure, I used different words than you did but I was trying to imply the same thing.

      Why put so much effort in trying to push against the facts about IRV?

      I did no such thing. Don’t strawman me by putting works in my mouth.

      Frankly if IRV gets put in place and people are not aware of its strange chaotic behavior it will get repealed, which isn’t my conjecture its reality.

      That is your conjecture, unless you give an example of that happening. I will grant you that it is conceivable that such a circumstance happen, but that doesn’t make it not a conjecture.

      I guess my point is that it isn’t really helpful for us to argue about different voting systems when we largely agree that we need to move away from a FPTP system. It just serves to promote division. Unless we are actually doing the groundwork of pushing for different voting systems, arguing about the details of the different systems is just not needed.

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        11 months ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_use_of_instant-runoff_voting?wprov=sfla1

        Both Canada and the US had and repealed irv in multiple jurisdictions.

        Your whole post is to tell everyone to chill on the criticism of IRV, its not a strawman its your actions.

        I guess my point is that it isn’t really helpful for us to argue about different voting systems when we largely agree that we need to move away from a FPTP system. It just serves to promote division. Unless we are actually doing the groundwork of pushing for different voting systems, arguing about the details of the different systems is just not needed.

        Right there, you just did it.

        IRV is not a good enough solution to promote, imo. I don’t agree with you and you are actively hurting the adoption of a proportional system, the only election system that results in a meaningful number of parties. STV is fine, IRV is not.

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          11 months ago

          I don’t agree with you and you are actively hurting the adoption of a proportional system

          Kinda low to attack me and not the argument. That is otherwise known as an ad hominem.

          It’s pretty clear your treating this as a pissing match and I have no interest in that.