• hglman@lemmy.ml
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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    Both Canada and the US had and repealed irv in multiple jurisdictions.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.

    • centof@lemm.ee
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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.