I tried ranked voting, for a non-political end. The goal was to select a slogan. With ranked voting, the lousy slogan won consistently, but nobody liked it. When we tried a straight up-down vote, everyone liked the slogan and it went on to be a success.
Beware alternate voting schemes! You may not like the result, but the person pushing the scheme probably will.
If someone is promoting a statistical, ranked, stepped or other alternative method, the candidate or choice has little chance of winning a straight vote. Think Alinsky, Delphi, scam when you are approached with this.
Sure it gives “alternative” choices a better chance, but do we want fringe results?
It probably would make sense if first choice votes were worth more than second and so forth.
Say you have ten candidates:
The first choice is worth 10 points, second 9, third 8: and so forth if you want to do it in a linear manner.
That contradicts my own experience. I suspect you have mischaracterized your own experience. Do you have a close connection to one of the major political parties?
Beware alternate voting schemes! You may not like the result, but the person pushing the scheme probably will.
It would be too bad if people dismissed range voting simply because some poster didn't read the article and was part of a group that used ranked voting.
Well we just elected the most left-wing senator to the position of president of the USA.
That doesn't count as a fringe result?