Maine is considering introducing preferential voting

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The superior voting system is This poll is closed.
First-past-the-post voting	1	1.47%
Preferential voting (IRV)	67	98.53%
Total:	68 votes

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kustomkarkommando posted:

Well the Irish implementation of STV does not mandate voters to preference all available candidates, unlike Australian IRV, and requires only a minimum of one preference for a vote to be valid

The Australian system is a bit more complex than that.

We use IRV in the federal lower house and in some state lower houses, and STV in the federal upper house and in some state upper and lower houses). The implementation of STV varies across the country but there's been a trend towards removing the need to number all the boxes (as well as other positive changes) at both the state and federal level.

Paracaidas posted:

I still like it, especially over FPTP in most spaces, but the added complexity and unfamiliarity is a larger burden on communities with low rates of English speaking, who are typically underrepresented in our politics anyway.

Yeah the experience here is that electorates with higher proportions of non-English speakers produce more informal ballots. It's a solvable problem and is partly related to inconsistent systems at the state and federal level (see above) since it makes education efforts harder.

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