Voting
Analysis of Ranked Choice voting in 5.19 (Governance Distribution Pilot)
The DAO has voted and it has approved EP5.19 with the project having being set as a budget of 30k. Since I am a big governance geek and I have been vocal about my issues with Ranked Choice voting and its alternatives I’d like to analyze the resulting data. Before, I’d like to clarify that this is a debate on how different voting methods lead to different result and not a complaint about the result itself. I would have been writing this regardless of the outcome. In fact the choice I voted as my first choice did not win and there is no way of analyzing the data that it would’ve won. First, probably the best graphical analysis of the vote can be seen on…
Condorcet voting explained from a Graphic Designer's point of view
On a recent post I’ve written critically of Instant Run-off voting, mainly criticizing it for being too complex to visualize the full state of the vote and that’s unintuitive to figure out the winner without tallying up all the votes in your head. I’ve also given a few examples in which the vote result could change drastically by a few voters changing their strategies as well as an example that in a typical race where the most popular candidates were extreme opposites, then the moderate candidates in the middle would be squeezed out. Hard to predict, hard to understand and prone to surprising results: those are the opposite qualities you want from a voting system. Often the rebuttal is…
The failures of Instant Run-off voting from a Designer's perspective
Democracy is the heart of modern civilization, elections are the heart of democracy, and a voting system is at the heart of elections. While we can’t blame all modern illnesses on a improper vote counting algorithm, a failed one certainly ripples back its problem on all society. Luckily this isn’t just an academic argument anymore, with more countries and states experimenting with systems beyond First Past the Post and Two Round Systems. Unfortunately, many of those are now migrating to Instant run Off voting, which has so many flaws that it can spoil the whole movement for better voting. Much has been written on the failures of “ First Past the Post ” (the american presidency system) and…
Como aumentar a Representatividade mas diminuir os Representantes
Repescagem: uma forma de contabilizar os votos que une o melhor do voto distrital e proporcional e pode diminuir os gastos públicos Saiu o resultado da última eleição e você provavelmente está focado no que aconteceu no Executivo. Mas essa eleição, foi acaba de ser definida sua nova câmara municipal, que deveria ter um impacto grande no que acontece na sua cidade. E agora, você sabe quem te representa na câmara? Se o vereador que você votou foi eleito, parabéns, você está em uma minoria! Mas se você precisar que ele ou ela te represente em alguma coisa, você tem acesso ou a pessoa é popular e inalcançável demais pra isso? Se seu candidato não foi eleito, a pergunta fica mais complicada:…