The Voting System That's Actually Too Good for Politicians to Allow

CGP Grey · 10.4M views · 2014-10-22 · 6:47

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Overview

CGP Grey explains the Single Transferable Vote, a proportional ranked-ballot system, and why politicians have little incentive to adopt it. It is a short animated explainer of how multi-winner ranked voting works.

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US politics & elections Politics & history (other)

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CivBase · 2017-12 · Strong recommendation
Gerrymandering is a problem because we have a poor voting system. I'm not sure if a single transferrable vote (STV) is the best system, but it would significantly reduce the benefit of gerrymandering (and probably result in better candidates from both parties). CGP Grey did a great video on STV: [VIDEO]
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s_dev · 2019-10 · Recommendation
Ireland uses this appraoch. We call it STV. STV Explained -- [VIDEO] It just a better democracy because it's more representative. It's solves the "wasted vote" problem people have with democracy and why many democracies result in a two party system. This way it ensures your vote is counted and multiple parties exist.
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lpolzer · 2019-03 · Recommendation
Now if only they would introduce something like Single Transferable Vote (entertaining CGPGrey video: [VIDEO] ), or another more effective voting system. Probably won't happen though, as it would seriously shake up politics as we know it.
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