Make Votes Matter

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Make Votes Matter is a political pressure group based in the United Kingdom which campaigns for replacing the archaic first-past-the-post voting system with one of proportional representation for elections to the British House of Commons. The group was founded in 2015.

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The Voting System That Actually Represents Everyone (peertube.wtf)

submitted 8 months ago by maam@feddit.uk to c/makevotesmatter@feddit.uk

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[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I found this once: https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/

Voter Satisfaction Efficiency (VSE) is a way of measuring the outcome quality a voting method will give.

Which led me to learn about STAR Voting: https://www.starvoting.org/

It seems to have some similarities to STV mentioned in the video. Interesting that STV doesn't punish voters for voting for a popular candidate.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Interesting that STV doesn’t punish voters for voting for a popular candidate.

But there are different methods to apportion those "excess" votes. Proportionally based on second choice, other runoff methods. Gets more complicated as you dig farther.

[–] maam@feddit.uk 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Star voting is a distraction.

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 1 points 8 months ago

How so?