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It’s nearly unanimous: The political elite don’t like ranked-choice voting
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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2024
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Ranked Choice Voting
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Open List Proportional Representation.
It seems like a great thing, but I support unifying behind one big reform idea that's gaining traction and has name recognition, over splitting the energy too much to things that aren't on the ballot coming up right now.
Open list PR would be harder to shoehorn onto current legislation (mostly to do with single member districts) and hence less politically viable.