Tl;dw all ranked choice options have a mathmatical spoiler effect. Approval voting doesn’t. First past the post is the worst.
Tl;dw all ranked choice options have a mathmatical spoiler effect. Approval voting doesn’t. First past the post is the worst.
Making a video like that without even mentioning proportional representation completely invalidates any credibility it might ever have had. I used to like this channel but these days I always question everything they say.
Proportional representation is irrelevant to most situations where a group of people has to choose from among several alternatives. I see no reason why it should be included alongside methods for determining a single winner, because it solves a different problem than they do.
The title literally says “Why democracy is mathematically impossible”, which is complete bullshit.
I think there was an unspoken assumption that proportional representation, while good, is orthogonal to the voting ballot tallying. Which is what I think the video mainly focused on. Proportional should absolutely still be used.