Hi Adam, that is an analysis from STAR Voting enthusiasts who promote their own STAR method which has never been used in any public elections, and which Eugene OR voters soundly rejected 35-65 in 2024. Their analysis of that Alaska election is similar to what proponents of Approval Voting and Condorcet Voting also put out after that election. All of these other methods have no future outside of perhaps a few private (small) elections because they all have their own idiosyncratic defects. In the case of STAR Voting, it is very complicated for voters, hard to understand what happens to your vote, and there is no voting equipment anywhere that can count such a convoluted system. Due to their frustration at making no progress with moving STAR Voting forward, its advocates have erroneously decided that the best way to advance STAR is to attack other methods like ranked choice voting, and mislead people with cherry-picked info that lacks context that promotes true understanding of the comparative value of different electoral methods. To read more of how STAR and other electoral system supporters (such as Approval Voting, Condorcet etc.) tried to "shift the frame" in that Alaska election to make their preferred method look superior, and to attack RCV, see this article:
"Alaska election results show why Condorcet is obsolete"
Condorcet advocates use the wrong standard for evaluating Ranked Choice Voting elections
Could you help us to understand this animation please: https://realrcv.equal.vote/alaska22
Hi Adam, that is an analysis from STAR Voting enthusiasts who promote their own STAR method which has never been used in any public elections, and which Eugene OR voters soundly rejected 35-65 in 2024. Their analysis of that Alaska election is similar to what proponents of Approval Voting and Condorcet Voting also put out after that election. All of these other methods have no future outside of perhaps a few private (small) elections because they all have their own idiosyncratic defects. In the case of STAR Voting, it is very complicated for voters, hard to understand what happens to your vote, and there is no voting equipment anywhere that can count such a convoluted system. Due to their frustration at making no progress with moving STAR Voting forward, its advocates have erroneously decided that the best way to advance STAR is to attack other methods like ranked choice voting, and mislead people with cherry-picked info that lacks context that promotes true understanding of the comparative value of different electoral methods. To read more of how STAR and other electoral system supporters (such as Approval Voting, Condorcet etc.) tried to "shift the frame" in that Alaska election to make their preferred method look superior, and to attack RCV, see this article:
"Alaska election results show why Condorcet is obsolete"
Condorcet advocates use the wrong standard for evaluating Ranked Choice Voting elections
https://democracysos.substack.com/p/alaska-election-results-show-why