Ranked Voting
Every election, voters face the same choice: Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum. You can either support the candidate of your choice and throw your vote away or give one of these idiots the false impression that you approve of them. Given this choice, many people stay home. either way, your vote has effectively been stolen.
Ranked voting gives you a chance to have your vote heard without throwing away your vote. Instead of having to choose one of two viable candidates, Imagine being able to rank them in order by preference. Your favorite candidate followed by your second favorite followed by a mainstream candidate followed by the the nutjob that runs for everything just for the fun of it.
Then they count the votes. If someone gets more than fifty percent, they win. Otherwise, we eliminate the candidate who got the least amount of votes. Chances are, that's your favorite candidate. Then your your vote goes to your second favorite candidate. They count the votes and and their still isn't a majority candidate. So they get rid of the least favorite candidate. Guess what, it's yours. They count again. One of the viable candidates wins and it's yours. Congratulations. Isn't that wonderful
However, that's not the whole story.
- You got to pick the lesser of two evils, congratulations
- Without you, your lesser of two evils would have lost
- Your vote for a great and a good candidate is now part of the public record
- Politicians will now take the opinions of people like you more seriously, even when there's no election
- More candidates MAY mean a shorter primary and a shorter election
Now, this is not a perfect system. Sometimes it can go wrong. There is no perfect voting system. However, I believe that this is one of the less imperfect systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting
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