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  • Re: JD, is this like the Alaska ranked choice voting system?

    From =?UTF-8?Q?Pelle_Svansl=C3=B6s?=@21:1/5 to jdeluise on Thu Aug 29 13:50:56 2024
    On 29.8.2024 6.58, jdeluise wrote:
    I do agree that the system there in PDX is a lot more complex due to the
    fact it's being used in races with multiple winners.

    According to the article it works just about the same as in an election
    with one winner. But is this proportional? The article is a bit short on stuffs, but it seems to me it is not.

    Like the river, proportionality is hallowed ground.

    --
    "And off they went, from here to there,
    The bear, the bear, and the maiden fair"
    -- Traditional

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  • From TT@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 30 11:11:01 2024
    Sawfish kirjoitti 29.8.2024 klo 2.51:
    About to start a new way to vote for city officials here in PDX. I've
    spent some time trying to get my head around it but it really seems counter-intuitive to me, and apparently to many others here. And it
    seems both pointless and a bit disconcerting to make the public voting mechanism less transparent rather than more transparent.

    It seems like the goal is to make the process cheaper and quicker for
    those who administer the voting system, since it eliminates run-offs.
    It's also not really clear what are the thresholds for re-counts, or if
    there ever will even be such a circumstance any more.

    I recall that you implied that in Alaska there's a ranked choice system.
    How does it compare to the one for PDX?

    https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/08/heres-how-portlands-one-of-a-kind-city-council-elections-will-work-but-with-doughnuts.html


    You should definitely vote for your city officials, it's more important
    than people realize.

    I never did, but hellbent on voting the next Helsinki council
    election... the Green Party & other leftist morons are really fucking up
    things in Helsinki.

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