Change is difficult. Think about all the times you tried to convince someone to do something they have never done before. It is pretty much impossible.
Election reform is no different. Convincing people there is a better way to vote is a monstrous challenge. What makes election reform even more difficult is that most American voters do not have experience with any other voting method. This leaves reformers with the task of trying to convince people to do something they have never done before.
Imagine explaining the electric automobile engine to people that have never seen an automobile or electricity. That is the predicament of election reformers.
Before people will expend the energy to understand election reform, they first must see what election reform looks like. So, before going to all the trouble of explaining how election reform works, let's see what it looks like.
Before people will expend the energy to understand election reform, they first must see what election reform looks like. So, before going to all the trouble of explaining how election reform works, let's see what it looks like.
Imagine walking into the voting booth on November 8, 2016, and seeing a ballot that looked like this:
Donald Trump Ted Cruz John Kasich Marco Rubio
Ben Carson Jeb Bush Rand Paul Chris Christie
Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders Martin O'Malley Jim Webb
Mike Huckabee Carly Fiorina Jim Gilmore Rick Santorum
Lincoln Chafee Lawrence Lessig Jill Stein Gary Johnson
Rick Perry Scott Walker Bobby Jindal Lindsay Graham
George Pataki Michael Bloomberg
Yeah, that's right. That's all of them. And maybe throw in Mark Cuban, The Rock, and Oprah if you want. It doesn't matter. Pick your top 100. They can all appear on one ballot under election reform.
Just think - you might actually find somebody to vote for that you really like; somebody that holds the same political positions as you do. How novel would that be? You might actually want to go vote.
So how does this work? Like this...
https://rcv-sc.blogspot.com/2017/11/ranking-is-intuitive.html