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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Also a subjectively bad one at that—given his america-brained position on wanting to maintain a single executive not that suprising but:

  • Why do you even need to default to winner-take-all?
  • Under winner-take-all dont you inherit most of the downside of FPTP? Sure there might be less wasted votes, but doesn't actually make harder for 5% parties to get representation, since dominant parties have less of an incentive to negotiate and/or coallition build. (Though I guess subjective given Yud's apparent dislike of many party working together in a coalition)
  • For a "runoff" system, the STAR system has the dubious distinction of allowing the condorcet loser—a candidate that would lose 1 vs 1 matchup against every other candidate in the field—to win, because a very enthiusastic minority can give a bunch of 5-star ratings.
  • At least FPTP has simplicity going for it, and not trying to arbitrarily compare not completely informed star ratings from voters.
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I think it's less america-brained and more just straight up cryptomonarchist.

For what it's worth STAR looks like something Yud wishes he would design, or would design if he could. A complicated system that assumes a highly informed electorate and allows for counterintuitive victory conditions sounds exactly like something appealing to him.