STAR voting is a little bit better. It’s easier to understand and easier to implement, and also honestly a little more accurate (and doesn’t suffer from any of the inherent mathematical problems that exist in an ordinal-ranking-only system).
It barely matters, almost anything would be an improvement over FPTP + politicial parties so I’m not trying to tear down one solution as the enemy of the perfect, but STAR is a little bit better.
Yeah. STAR is simple: Everyone gives each candidate from 0 to 5 stars, and then whoever has the most stars wins. Easy peazy lemon squeezy. There’s none of this “hold on let me fire up the algorithm…” involved.
STAR voting is a little bit better. It’s easier to understand and easier to implement, and also honestly a little more accurate (and doesn’t suffer from any of the inherent mathematical problems that exist in an ordinal-ranking-only system).
It barely matters, almost anything would be an improvement over FPTP + politicial parties so I’m not trying to tear down one solution as the enemy of the perfect, but STAR is a little bit better.
Good to know! The mathematics behind this stuff are beyond me at the moment.
Yeah. STAR is simple: Everyone gives each candidate from 0 to 5 stars, and then whoever has the most stars wins. Easy peazy lemon squeezy. There’s none of this “hold on let me fire up the algorithm…” involved.