After a slowdown in the passage of election bills last year, state lawmakers were busy introducing legislation in 2025. With most legislatures having adjourned, the number of election bills introduced was 3,160, with 331 of them enacted into law across 43 states, according to NCSL tracking. Although this is a significant increase from the 2,017 bills NCSL tracked at the same point in the 2024 session, the number of enactments last year—218—was only slightly off this year’s count. It’s...
I used to be a big fan of RCV (and pretty much anything is better than FPTP), but I’ve become convinced that STAR voting is better than RCV.
There’s no “algorithm,” it’s not confusing, it’s mathematically better, it doesn’t suffer from any of the traps that ranking-candidates systems suffer from. Basically you just give a star rating 1-5 to each candidate and whoever gets the most stars wins. Easy peasy.
I’ll take anything other than FPTP or fascism.
Yeah. Nitpicking about how the better replacement isn’t better enough, and so let’s all get derailed into arguments about it, wasn’t what I was trying to do. Just bringing up another also good alternative. RCV seems to be what has the name recognition right now, and generally people like it, so hooray let’s improve.