Where in the Met is Carmen Sandiego?

Checks out

When’s bsky getting the Spaces so I can hear your sweet nothings?

Sup dude

Ranked Robin is great. Right up there with STAR…

Strategic STAR Voting? - Equal Vote Coalition

See STAR voting: www.equal.vote/strategic-star

Today I was gifted an antique sandalwood box with three moonstones inside… a sign of the times perhaps :-).

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I'm Exec Dir of RCV Montana. Five years ago, I started pursuing RCV in Montana w/ a desire to give voters more choice, empower third parties & independents, & reduce the mudslinging.

I'm abandoning the RCV movement, still dedicated to reform. Cordially, I invite you to join me
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Paris to Replace Parking Spaces With Trees The city’s new climate plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60,000 parking spots and create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat.

“By 2030, Paris will have removed 60,000 parking spaces and replaced them with trees. That’s one of the goals outlined in the French capital’s new 2024-2030 Climate Plan… #Paris promises to establish 300ha of new green space by 2030, with 10% in place by 2026.”

Leadership.

#ClimateCrisis

Relevant sections of the report are behind a paywall? Curious how the “painted bike lanes” are differentiated - ie old school narrow bike lanes versus eliminating street parking on one side and adding a healthy bike lane margin?

+1 for Bluesky :-)

Curious why you don’t allow comments on these videos?

Could be a bold step forward for Alaska…

Due in no small part to RCV’s breakage on Alaska’s first use, the suspicion of RCV in particular is quite high (bans in 11 states, a drubbing on the statewide measures, etc) Ranked Robin is arguably more intuitive for ranking - ie it’s like a round robin, and has the bonus of counting all the votes.

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The Equal Vote Coalition is the driving force behind the STAR Voting movement and a leading proponent of voting methods that ensure an equally powerful vote for all.

Learn more: equal.vote and starvoting.org

Ranked Choice Voting - The Promise and Reality YouTube video by UFTV

Any thoughts about working on an upgrade? RCV’s counting system breaks down when there are three or more competitive candidates in the race… seems like Alaska FWD could be a good champion for fixing it… See youtu.be/Y7xHB-av6Cc for an explainer of the problem and solutions.

Seems this thought exercise runs counter to the whole top 4 concept, no?

Laudable. Still thinking this whole concept ought be peer to peer in form…

Of course. The limit of a single choice in each election leads directly to the spoiler effect, which is a core problem.

The point of an equal vote is that multiple similar candidates should be able to compete on a level playing field and still have the outcome reflect the will of the voters overall. What you’re describing is what we have now with “choose only one” plurality voting and the spoiler effect.

Not sure how you get to that conclusion…

Huh?

Unfuck The Vote! Democracy for our Republic. Game On!

Voting method reform can be accomplished at the local and state level (crucibles of democracy and all that). Getting rid of vote splitting in the choice process is key… if you haven’t, give unfuckthevote.com a gander… feedback welcome!

Our system’s limit of only two viable parties is an unfortunate byproduct of the use of voting methods that feature vote-splitting. The “right” faces the same factionalization problem as well. Really think it’d be a good time to move to a method that doesn’t cement spiraling polarization.

Eliminating vote-splitting doesn’t require PR, but it does require voting methods that provide an equal weight vote- STAR, Approval, Ranked Robin to name a few. (That’s not an argument against PR btw, but even single-winner representation can be made much more representative).

You might be mixing up an effect as a root cause. Many voters are turned off by both “sides” and both “sides” are driven by the same power dynamic: the aggregation of minority viewpoints to get to 50%+1. See unfuckthevote.com

“Curated” is a generous word in this use :-).

Let’s move past the duopoly and unfuckthevote.com

Hey @ismarvolic.bsky.social, your book has arrived! Based on even just the first page, I think we may have a spirited and educational conversation :-). (Spoiler Alert: the solution you propose is also a problematic way to decide which movie to watch…) Will dig in deep and then let’s find a time!