Voting systems

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At this point I'm advocating range voting for pretty much everything, because of all the systems in existence, it provides the minimum outcome error and is also easiest to evaluate in various contexts.

This page is for looking at suggestions that other systems work better in some circumstances.

Ranked Voting

[...] any system which doesn't give candidates an incentive to work for and with voters strikes me as a system that doesn't fulfill the needs of voters.

In ranking, candidates need to get support in order to win. In range, they just need to suck a tiny bit less than the others. They may well be able to do that without doing a single thing to actually earn support.

It's possible [that "sucking just a little bit less" would also get a win in ranking], but less likely. In ranking, you need some way to get ahead. Everybody's getting all the votes, and you want more appeal than the next one to rank higher. But in range, it's possible to have all candidates have negative scores or a tie among them all, which isn't possible in ranking.