I'll have to look into it. If there's something worth the energy, it's this and maybe term limits.

@devpav I find it unlikely that a state legislature would allow this to pass.

(unless perhaps it had been enacted in other states successfully)

It'd be interesting to do no-primary STV.

That'd considerably reduce partisan hackery, since candidates would have to compete directly for a slice of all available votes.

Including against their own party, in theory.

ye

There are state legislatures crazy enough to award their electoral votes to the 'national popular vote' winner.

Hilariously it'd be easiest to sell to Berniebros

holy

moly

Cause he would have been able to run independently and win, since runoff voting would have encouraged everyone to vote Bernie as first choice and then second choice safe pick.

brb gonna shower like a normie

Which is amusing because I really don't like Bernie, but I'd still support the passage of runoff because it'd snipe many even bigger issues.

States would have to enact jungle primaries like Cali in order to ensure a runoff election in November.

That's one of the issues with leaving this entirely to the state; the transition will be lopsided. But I guess nothing is ever easy.

@devpav Instant runoff is what I was talking about.

@devpav i.e. no runoff needs to be conducted, because ballots have priority

Ye

TBH I wish there was even like, options for making strawpolls like that

It'd make my life so much easier with running D&D and some other stuff.

I could code something up quickly for that.

What kind of situation are you talking?

You want to set out a set of options, and have people prioritize them, and then collate it as an instant-runoff straw poll?

I think what you're talking about is called rank-choice voting.

Well, that's one component of it.

The specifics of the transfer process are important.

Oh, apparently it's in the official feature request roadmap of strawpoll

Neat

@xorgy Yeah, essentially.

Indicate via number or order of selection, one's preference order and then perform an IRV of the results.

Realistically it's not difficult to code

Yeah

Hurricane up to 150MPH sustained winds

I think I'm going to make a version that does it over email.

I could probably make an excel/gsheets setup for it, but having the ability to just plop a strawpoll link would be nice.

155 makes it a cat 5, could get there

@LotheronPrime oof.

i.e. you put in a list of email addresses, it sends ballot links to each of them, and the ballots are processed.

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