I live in a RCV country (Ireland), and it’s got its advantages and disadvantages. On the plus side, you can always make sure that your vote will count. In addition, RCV tends to push the final result towards the political centre, with fringe extremist parties getting less popular vote than in other voting systems. The biggest drawback is that once a party gets entrenched near the centre, ir’s very hard to dislodge it. Ireland had been governed for over 100 years by the same two parties - sometimes alone, other times (like now) in a coalition.
Right now, for the US, your vote doesn’t count if you vote 3rd party. We only have two political parties and they vehemently oppose each other (mostly in the House and SC).
Sounds like RCV would just fix the part where 3rd party voting typically is throwing away your vote.
I live in a RCV country (Ireland), and it’s got its advantages and disadvantages. On the plus side, you can always make sure that your vote will count. In addition, RCV tends to push the final result towards the political centre, with fringe extremist parties getting less popular vote than in other voting systems. The biggest drawback is that once a party gets entrenched near the centre, ir’s very hard to dislodge it. Ireland had been governed for over 100 years by the same two parties - sometimes alone, other times (like now) in a coalition.
Right now, for the US, your vote doesn’t count if you vote 3rd party. We only have two political parties and they vehemently oppose each other (mostly in the House and SC).
Sounds like RCV would just fix the part where 3rd party voting typically is throwing away your vote.