builtforcameron t1_j6hwssb wrote on January 30, 2023 at 1:28 PM

Reply to comment by HeadPen5724 in Debating ranked-choice voting in Vermont by orange_wires

The issue isnt whether we encourage people to make uninformed decisions when voting, its about understanding HOW people vote. If you take party affiliations off the ballot, a lot of people won't vote/won't know who to vote for. We want MORE people voting, which RCV encourages

HeadPen5724 t1_j6hxcvz wrote on January 30, 2023 at 1:33 PM

I disagree. We want MORE INFORMED voters, not more uninformed voters. Uninformed voters are not a positive thing.

And IRV actually discounts the votes of people that don’t rank candidates they don’t know anything about, so it’s not benefitting that aspect either. At least with a traditional runoff it gives the voter some time to read up and learn about the two remaining candidates. And no one should ever be forced to vote for a particular candidate to have their vote count, which in some IRV scenarios is the case.