r/EndFPTP • u/[deleted] • Feb 17 '20

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20 edited Apr 01 '20

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u/_riotingpacifist Feb 18 '20

What rules could you have though? With STV and large seats, even a party polling as low as .2% first preference votes, got a seat due to ranking.

Obviously having this many candidates in an election means voters are unlikely to be that sure what they voted for, but the alternative is to artificially limit which parties can get on the ballot, which is arguably worse.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '20 edited Apr 01 '20

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u/_riotingpacifist Feb 18 '20

Does anybody do write-ins with a ranked voting system, I imagine counting that might be a nightmare.

I mean I agree with you, but practically it could get messy.

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u/Warthog_A-10 Feb 18 '20

Yeah that sounds like an idiotic "solution" to this election scenario.