• 9bananas@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    oh, damn, you’re right!

    i got that mixed up; i thought ranked choice also includes proportional representation, because it frees up your secondary vote to be for whoever you want it to be, without pressure to vote for a canditate that “has a chance of winning”, thus alleviating the issue of strategic voting…but that’s pretty much the only thing it does.

    but the proportional representation is tied to the way mandates/seats are distributed, which isn’t tied to the how the vote works.

    so if the senate still had the same number of seats per state, it wouldn’t fix representation, because the weight of the votes still wouldn’t be equal…

    yeah, sorry for the confusion…long day…but thanks for the polite correction!