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Over on reddit there's an entire genre of this sort of fiction in /r/hfy

Edge cases like you describe are a key part of Ordinal voting systems, Cardinal voting systems are immune to that sort of thing.

Also, Cardinal voting systems can be super easy. Take Approval.

Simply take a list of names, and mark next to each candidate you approve of. If you feel like you need to have a moral conundrum over what you feel like approval means, then go ahead, but just mark the next to any or all of the names on the list that you like.

After that, the counting is simple as well. You add up the approval of each candidate, independent of what any other candidate gets, and then the winner is the one with the most approval.

It is literally impossible to elect an unpopular candidate via Approval, unless only unpopular candidates run.

STAR is slightly more complex, in that you rate each candidate on a scale of 0-5. Again, no one actually cares about your personal journey in rating someone a 4 or whatnot, just do it and move on.

Then when counting, you again add up the numbers, take the highest two, and see where they rate on each individual ballot. If one is rated higher than the other, they get the vote from that ballot.

Changing the voting system so that third parties are actually possible.

You need a cardinal voting system, otherwise you'll fall prey to Durverger's Law and Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.

I favor STAR, it's the best system designed to date.

Some parts of the punk community punch Nazis on sight, yes. Particularly in the British punk community.

Except the truth is that no, almost every venom is safe to ingest. Provided you don't have any cuts in your mouth or throat.

Snakes are not immune to their own venom. They don't need to be, because their stomach acid can break it down.

As can ours.

Ranked Choice is an Ordinal voting system that fails Arrow's Theorem.

In some rare cases, it can produce a result even worse than First Past the Post. There are a bunch of flaws in RCV, because it was invented before mathematical evaluation was as robust as it is these days.

Simulation, and some unfortunate real world examples, show that if you vote in and election with at least three somewhat viable candidates, and keep strategy in mind, you can rate your preferred candidate second and improve their chances of winning.

No voting system should be able to do this. RCV has more flaws in addition to this already game breaking one.

It is literally to have a viable third party under First Past the Post. It boils down to Duverger's law. Or more broadly Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

We need to focus on the actual voting system before we can start generating and supporting Third Parties.

Specifically we need a cardinal voting system. It's literally the only way to gain viable third parties that are not just extensions of the major two.

Sadly it's too late to get voting reform on any more ballots this year.

But you can still get involved.

https://www.equal.vote/

It's not a remake. It's a sequel with the same director and writing team as the first one.

It also has a few truly disturbing scenes.

What is 2C-B?

As a teen, the main question I had was, "can I make a pipe out of this?".

Now that I'm old, the question is mostly "why the hell is this still illegal on a federal level?"

It would have made shit so much worse, but is a sign of weakness in Putin's rule.

That's why Putin is so murder happy right now. He's having to reconsolidate his rule.

Ukraine was a massive fuck up for Putin. He believes in the bullshit known as color revolution.

So he thought he'd pull one in Ukraine. A few years of some soldiers fucking around in the East, then he'd walk in and be welcomed.

Which is fucking stupid.

But Putin has long since killed anyone who would tell him that an idea is stupid, or that people don't work the way a paranoid, backstabbing KGB trained psychopath thinks they do.

No, Putin fucked up hard due to the dictator trap.

Now he's scrambling. He's been killing off rivals and opponents at a breakneck pace the last few years, all because his position has never been weaker.

And he barely managed to diffuse a coup attempt.

He had to use treachery to do it, so the next time, the coup leader will not back down.

No, Putin is desperate to pull out some sort of win in Ukraine, because anything else is the end of his rule, and likely his life.