6th November 2017, 7:42 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:What form of ranked choice was your state considering? Would it be a pure "this person is my first, this person is my second" system, or a system where each voter gets as many votes as there are candidates and gets to divide them up across the candidates as they so choose, including putting all the votes on a single candidate? Either way would be a marked improvement over "winner take all".I think it's the latter system, where you can rank as many people as you want.
Quote:I'm glad you're with us on the two party system being flawed though. Again, I don't want parties themselves to die, just for the two-party deadlock our country has to die. If a change in the voter rules leads to that outcome, I'm satisfied.If I lived in a different state maybe I wouldn't agree with you on this (because I do support the Democratic Party after all), but here in Maine it's particularly needed because we have so many three-way races. Independent candidates do well here, but sometimes that leads to disasters like Paul LePage winning his first term, a race he never would have won with ranked choice voting...