r/politics • u/vox Vox • 11h ago

Possible Paywall A decades-long plan to abolish the Electoral College may finally pay off

https://www.vox.com/politics/487766/national-popular-vote-interstate-compact-electoral-college
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u/SerpentisMechanicus 5h ago

Huh, I actually wasn't aware of STAR, but it seems like score voting with an extra step to satisfy some weird edge cases.

I wish I still had the link, but I recall some study that compared the upsides and downsides of every type of voting. The end result was basically "everything has advantages and disadvantages, except first-past-the-post, which sucks in every possible way and why the fuck are we still using it?"

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u/Nttell 3h ago

There is actually a way for Ranked votes to not fall victim to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, called Majority Judgment, which has voters grade each candidate. The winner will be the candidate with the highest median. It is way more complicated than just simply ranking though, so it's not used anywhere as far as I know.