It took quite some time for the complicated mathematical reductions of “Ranked Choice” voting to arrive at the final three winners in Portland’s first City Council races in Districts 3
It seems fair, they should have known the answer by now. Whether or not RCV was at all involved in the delays in gathering everything up in this case, it definitely does make things more complex to tabulate, since you have to aggregate all of the “raw data” together into one calculation. You can’t just have each precinct report its total and then centrally add up all the totals.
Since starting this community to try to promote RCV, I have become more or less convinced that STAR voting is probably a better way. Although, any type of reform is a good step forward, I think.
Why? It’s instant runoff, right? And I’d hardly call eliminating the lowest, redistributing votes, retallying, and repeat complicated mathematical operations.
Yeah, it would have been nice if the article made some attempt to explain why.
The headline reads like a hit piece on RCV
It seems fair, they should have known the answer by now. Whether or not RCV was at all involved in the delays in gathering everything up in this case, it definitely does make things more complex to tabulate, since you have to aggregate all of the “raw data” together into one calculation. You can’t just have each precinct report its total and then centrally add up all the totals.
Since starting this community to try to promote RCV, I have become more or less convinced that STAR voting is probably a better way. Although, any type of reform is a good step forward, I think.