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

Why HN readers recommended it

HN's default link for explaining STV in any thread on voting reform, ranked choice or gerrymandering.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

CGP Grey

Topic

single transferable vote

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

7

HN mentions in dataset

18

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• 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 …

• Elections were (IMO) meant to be bloodless revolutions. its just the 1% has captured both primary political parties. Also, the flawed first past the post electoral system discourages competition (IMO to keep it cheaper for the 1% to own the whole process). I'll post some …

• Support anyone who wants to get rid of FPTP voting and introduce a more representative voting system (ranked choice, for example). Right now, people have to vote for the least of two shitty candidates. Instead, we could vote for the ones who represent us the …