• @Viking_Hippie
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      16 months ago

      With the 0-5 star ranking that lets you rank more than one candidate the same if you want to, results are much more likely to accurately reflect the priorities of voters than straight ranking that doesn’t.

      If for example I give the far left candidate 5 stars, the center-left candidate 3 stars and both the centrist and the center-right candidate 2 stars, then the result of that round will more accurately reflect my priorities than if I had to rank two choices I (dis)like equally differently.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          16 months ago

          Yeah, that’s not actually how it works… You don’t get to see and react to everyone else’s ballots and if you’re not voting honestly, you’re fucking yourself and others like you.

          Which is something you can do on purpose with eqaul ease in instant runoff and run a greater risk of the spoiler effect happening without you meaning to. Much smaller than with fptp, but still greater than with STAR.