If you’re a UK citizen this is the one petition absolutely worth signing. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
I’ve been working in this space for ten years, and it’s finally a possibility that we could see real voting reform within the next few years. Also see proportional.uk
📜 The House of Commons just debated the Representation of the People Bill
💥 Great to see more Labour MPs joining the call for a National Commission on Electoral Reform
📺 @patrickhurley.bsky.social @catsmithmp.bsky.social @chriscurtis94.bsky.social & @jamesnaish.bsky.social
🌹 #Labour4PR
In multi-round elections (like RCV), moderate candidates gets squeezed out early! 1st-place votes are split, leading to a final round between two extremes. Voters prefer the moderate, but the system eliminates them. Result: Polarization wins. #CenterSqueeze #ElectionReform
Ranking Distribution This shows how many candidates voters ranked, both overall and broken down by each candidate's first-choice supporters. This reveals whether some candidates attracted voters who ranked multiple candidates versus those who ranked fewer candidates.
Almost half of Frey voters only ranked him, far more than any other 1st choice. Davis 1st choicers were the most generous, 84% of them ranked 3
Hi Utah, Welcome to the Family!
✅ Approval Voting coming to an election near you...
📍In Salt Lake County: Herriman, Magna, West Jordan, West Valley City
📍In Tooele County: Tooele, West Desert
📍In Utah County: Eagle Mountain, Fairfield, Lehi, Bluffdale
#approvalvoting #vote
Beautiful. They did a great job with this.
🚨 The government is preparing a new Elections Bill, promising to strengthen Britain's democracy.
But it currently fails to address the elephant in the room: the voting system.
We're asking the Democracy Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social to fix this.
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STV is a form of PR. PR just means it’s proportional, and seats match votes.
🚨 NEW: Cross-party MPs publish ‘ready to go’ blueprint for electoral reform commission
— FPTP “threatens to undermine the resilience and stability of our democratic system”, @appgfairelections.bsky.social MPs say
— The group is calling on ministers to greenlight its plan
Exclusive story 👇
📜 We're pleased to publish a Terms of Reference for a National Commission on Electoral Reform
⚖️ This is a ready to go plan to independently review how Parliament is elected, promote a national conversation, and build consensus on a way forward
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We have the first ever cast vote records from an approval voting election! ✅✅☑️✅
The St. Louis data is conclusive: voters embraced the system's flexibility. 33% approved multiple candidates, debunking bullet voting myths.
felixsargent.com/democracy/20...
This day in 2022: "Is There a Better System Than Ranked-Choice Voting?"
"No rankings, no runoffs, no assigning each candidate a numerical score between 0 and 99"
www.wweek.com/news/dr-know/2022/08/07/...
#approvalvoting #votingreform #fptp
I've no love for IRV, but STV is good enough.
> We would conclude by emphasising that our basic recommendation is that there should be electoral reform. Whatever arguments there maybe about the systems we have described, these should not be allowed to obscure our fundamental and unanimous decision.
Essential reading for the history of proportional representation and electoral reform in the UK
📊 The complete 1976 Hansard Society Commission on Electoral Reform is now on @archive.org
I've converted the PDF to markdown/epub with:
✅ Verified election data tables (1918-1974)
✅ Clean formatting and structure
✅ Full accessibility
@makevotesmatter.bsky.social
@electoralreform.bsky.social
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I'm stunned to find myself writing this, but I can suddenly see a route to PR
It's partly the rise of Reform, of course, but partly about the Labour rule-book
NEW COL explains www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/707...
I want a sticker set of all the emoji. Not some, all of them. Why is this hard?
I’m worried that RCV is an intentional wedge issue that stops voting reform. Alternative Vote (an RCV method) failed in the UK because of its complexity.
No matter how much we want proportional representation the UK, RCV will cause it to fail.
Our opponents are counting on it.
The electoral reform movement is hamstrung by so much of the good work being done behind closed doors, and not wanting to celebrate until we win the war.
We need to be loud about every meeting. Every letter to the editor.
RCV is a tax on the electoral reform movement.
Best!
Approval.vote is down while working with
@electionscience.bsky.social
to renew the domain, but in the meanwhile it’s available on approvalvoting.report
Honestly, this is so confusing. Makes me much prefer Approval Voting instead of ranked choice voting.
They’re green!
Densification is the solution, no?
There are a lot of interesting details for scholars to explore about basically everything, but for practitioners you get the most value out of the basics:
— Moderates do better at elections
— Free trade makes most people better off
— The past was poorer
