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Animated Voting Methods

An animated simulation comparing single-winner voting methods such as plurality, instant runoff and STAR. Colored regions show which candidate wins as a randomized electorate shifts across a two-dimensional political space, building on Ka-Ping Yee's earlier diagrams.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters cite it in voting-reform threads as a visual argument that cardinal systems (STAR, approval) beat plurality and ranked-choice voting.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Unify The Vote
Topic
voting systems
Format
explainer
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
13
Recommendation years in dataset
2018–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • I always recommend this pair of videos when discussing STAR voting vs other alternative systems. The first video is an easy-to-follow explanation of how spoiler effects can happen in both plurality voting and IRV [1]. In the second [2], the guy who created Star voting …

    user234683 on Hacker News · 2019-10
    In Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City

  • Simple answer: The math says so [VIDEO] Longer answer: cardinal systems (the generalized form that approval is part of) is able to capture more information about voter preference. It is easiest to see this with something like range voting. You may be familiar with a …

    godelski on Hacker News · 2020-10
    In Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in a Presidential Election

  • Ranked Choice Voting is not really a good idea. It has very strange unintuitive behavior. Doing Score based voting is just much better and arguably simpler and less work. I specially like the Star-Voting, where they do a runoff at the end to cover some …

    nickik on Hacker News · 2021-06
    In What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?

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