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We're joined by Nate Allen, founder and Executive Director of Utah Approves, to discuss Approval Voting and his perspective on changing the incentives of our elections.
Ranked-choice voting lets voters choose candidates in order of preference. With approval voting, people mark which candidates they’d be ok with being elected.
Ammon Gruwell: Approval voting will help end the political duopoly (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Voters at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. By Ammon Gruwell | Special to The Tribune | May 14, 2021, 9:00 p.m. Imagine you walk into a shoe store and the only two options available are snow boots and flip-flops, and there’s a big sign hanging overhead saying “choose only one.” You would be shocked at both the appalling lack of options as well as the restrictive one-per-customer limit. Unfortunately, this is exactly the situatio...
Ranked-Choice Voting: A Conservative Election Reform “[T]he thinking conservative understands that permanence and change must be recognized and reconciled in a vigorous society.” When Russell Kirk penned his famous “Ten Conservative Principles [1]” in 1993, he was not writing specifically about reforming the modern electoral system. But with the recent political frenzy over laws to address “voter fraud” and subsequent charges of “voter suppression,” the need for prudential election reforms that balance permanence and change is greater than ever. Barry Fagin of the Independence...
This column is about fixing our broken country. So much ink is being spilled nowadays on who gets to vote. Voting rights are important, but what’s more important is how we vote. In a word, it’s terrible. Our voting system is terrible because it’s winner-take-all (also called “first past the post”), and because legislative elections have only one winner. Virtually no other modern democracy does it that way. Most democracies have multiple parties and districts with multiple winners, with the seats allocated in proportion to how many votes the candidates and/or parties received. Most c...