Scholar Sauce | Does Ranked Choice Voting Work? @scholarsauce | Uploaded March 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
What in the world is this ranked choice voting stuff that we keep hearing about? Does it work? Will it help? Is it hard to do? In this video, we look into the basics of ranked choice voting and compare it to plurality voting. We consider two different ranked choice voting methods, the instant run-off method that everyone is talking about when they say ranked choice voting and then a lesser known method called Coombs' rule.
We do this all with an example so we can see these methods in action. It turns out that some voting methods do not have the best properties while others are an improvement. We also talk about what the point is to moving to a different voting system in the first place.
Please share this video with anyone that is wondering what ranked choice voting is and whether it might help in a democracy including and especially ours.
In the video, I mention a great scholarly article about Coombs' rule and promised a link in the description. You can find this article here:
"If you like the alternative vote (a.k.a. the instant runoff), then you ought to know about the Coombs rule"
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S026137940300060X
Voting Sticker Photo used as part of the thumbnail by Element5 Digital on Unsplash.
What in the world is this ranked choice voting stuff that we keep hearing about? Does it work? Will it help? Is it hard to do? In this video, we look into the basics of ranked choice voting and compare it to plurality voting. We consider two different ranked choice voting methods, the instant run-off method that everyone is talking about when they say ranked choice voting and then a lesser known method called Coombs' rule.
We do this all with an example so we can see these methods in action. It turns out that some voting methods do not have the best properties while others are an improvement. We also talk about what the point is to moving to a different voting system in the first place.
Please share this video with anyone that is wondering what ranked choice voting is and whether it might help in a democracy including and especially ours.
In the video, I mention a great scholarly article about Coombs' rule and promised a link in the description. You can find this article here:
"If you like the alternative vote (a.k.a. the instant runoff), then you ought to know about the Coombs rule"
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S026137940300060X
Voting Sticker Photo used as part of the thumbnail by Element5 Digital on Unsplash.
