Green party releases ultra-naive pro-IRV youtube videos
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Warren D Smith
Oct 17, 2016, 11:45:18 AM10/17/16
to electionscience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb7MQ7da6sg
"How ranked choice voting prevents spoilers"
Narrated by former GP presidential nominee and
present Stein/Baraka campaign
manager David Cobb. About IRV and how it will cure cancer.
Unfortunately he makes a ton of utterly unsubstantiated claims...
and more importantly, IRV would actually be a bad move
from the Green Party's point of view (I use the epithet
"suicidally stupid"), and approval & score would be good
moves -- a fact which (and the underlying reasons for it)
Cobb totally fails to appreciate.
No other voting system besides IRV mentioned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thfz1Cv_sHM
"Don't waste your vote - invest your vote"
Basically argues you should vote Stein/Baraka right now. Again makes
a lot of claims which strike me as dubious. Does not
mention voting systems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h5RRfyMblE
"The four pillars of the Green party":
claims green party is part of an international green party movement,
whose 4 pillars are
1. "a commitment to ecology"
2. "a commitment to social justice"
3. "a commitment to democracy"
4. "a commitment to non-violence"
"How ranked choice voting prevents spoilers"
Narrated by former GP presidential nominee and
present Stein/Baraka campaign
manager David Cobb. About IRV and how it will cure cancer.
Unfortunately he makes a ton of utterly unsubstantiated claims...
and more importantly, IRV would actually be a bad move
from the Green Party's point of view (I use the epithet
"suicidally stupid"), and approval & score would be good
moves -- a fact which (and the underlying reasons for it)
Cobb totally fails to appreciate.
No other voting system besides IRV mentioned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thfz1Cv_sHM
"Don't waste your vote - invest your vote"
Basically argues you should vote Stein/Baraka right now. Again makes
a lot of claims which strike me as dubious. Does not
mention voting systems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h5RRfyMblE
"The four pillars of the Green party":
claims green party is part of an international green party movement,
whose 4 pillars are
1. "a commitment to ecology"
2. "a commitment to social justice"
3. "a commitment to democracy"
4. "a commitment to non-violence"
William Waugh
Oct 17, 2016, 10:01:57 PM10/17/16
to The Center for Election Science
A search of YouTube for "Ranked-choice Voting" produces many pages of hits. Eventually one comes to FairVote's uploads.
"Who is the intended audience of this article? If it's the general masses why is the author using opaque acronyms such as IRV when the video they are critiquing doesn't even use the vernacular properly?
"This message of approval voting will never propagate unless we can find a way to increase the signal to noise ratio and opaque acronyms just add to the the noise."
On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 11:45:18 AM UTC-4, Warren D. Smith (CRV cofounder, http://RangeVoting.org) wrote https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/electionscience/ko3N6ItmcBs
On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 11:45:18 AM UTC-4, Warren D. Smith (CRV cofounder, http://RangeVoting.org) wrote https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/electionscience/ko3N6ItmcBs
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