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The Voting System That's Actually Too Good for Politicians to Allow

CGP Grey · explainer · Watch on YouTube

US politics & electionsPolitics & history (other)

What it is

CGP Grey explains the Single Transferable Vote, a proportional ranked-ballot system, and why politicians have little incentive to adopt it. It is a short animated explainer of how multi-winner ranked voting works.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN's default link for explaining STV in any thread on voting reform, ranked choice or gerrymandering.

  • 7 people recommended it
  • 7 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “CGP Grey did a great video on STV”

    Great explanation of single transferable vote

    CivBase, 2017-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Gerrymandering with geographically compact districts”

  2. “I'll post some videos from people smarter then me”

    One of several videos on electoral reform

    LoonyBalloony, 2017-02 · Recommendation · in “Robots Aren’t Killing the American Dream”

  3. “Supports replacing FPTP with ranked choice”

    orthecreedence, 2017-04 · Recommendation · in ““Restoring Internet Freedom” Notice of Proposed Rulemaking [pdf]”

  4. “Relevant videos (IMO)”

    Relevant video on STV

    thelasthuman, 2018-11 · Recommendation · in “The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by the Public”

  5. “CGP grey explains it pretty well”

    Clear explanation of single transferable vote

    khr, 2018-12 · Recommendation · in “Commandeering Australian citizens to become spies”

  6. “entertaining CGPGrey video”

    Entertaining explanation of STV

    lpolzer, 2019-03 · Recommendation · in “DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System”

  7. “STV Explained --”

    Explains STV and why it gives more representative democracy

    s_dev, 2019-10 · Recommendation · in “Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: voting systems, stv, ranked choice, electoral reform, proportional representation

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