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Ted Cruz

7 (6.5%)

Rick Santorum

16 (14.8%)

Michelle Bachmann

13 (12%)

Chris Christie

23 (21.3%)

Rand Paul

49 (45.4%)

Total Members Voted: 107

[Dutchling]

Obviously, you score the candidates relative to each other - the one you want to win most gets a 9, the one you want to win least gets a 0, and the rest are scored by comparison. If you're really concerned, just be sure to explain that to people.

[E]ven if you have to give everyone a different number you'd just give the 2-8 to random people nobody is going to vote for anyway. There will never be a situation where giving the guy you like second best a 2-8 unless a) you don't want your favourite to win, or b) he's the underdog and isn't going to win anyway.

Alternatively, if you honestly felt that that candidate was a 6, then you can't be that upset to see them get elected, now can you?

Yes you can and should be upset, because if it the race was close he might have won because you* gave him that 6 instead of a 0. Thus the system made your #1 candidate lose solely because you didn't game the system like everyone else probably did and definitely should.
*replace you with everyone who voted for him and honestly ranked their candidates.

Don't get me wrong, I like the idea. It just doesn't work. IRV is just a better version of this, since you can vote highly for someone you kinda like without risking getting them elected over the guy you really like.

[RedKing]

I voted this past weekend, and I was shocked to actually stand in line for a good 20 minutes. At my previous polling place, I'd be in and out in no time. Given that this area is a liberal bastion (woohoo!) that's a good sign.

I think Tillis is going down in flames. Not that I'm thrilled about Hagan, but Tillis is just a godawful trainwreck of a pol. The one silver lining if he does get elected is that at least he'll be out of our state government. Not that we don't have a surplus of mixed nuts to replace him...

[Angle]

IRV is also pretty good, and I'd be satisfied if we switched to it. Indeed, if there were an election between IRV, Score, and other systems using our current system, I might well vote for IRV if I thought score had too small a chance of winning. But then, that just illustrates how bad our current system is.

As for Score versus IRV, that's a complicated argument. I think this covers it pretty well.

and yeah, mcconnell looks like trouble. In googling him, I found this, which has an interesting app. I wonder if we can see any interesting patterns in the comments on it?

[smjjames]

Maybe you guys could put the vote system stuff in another thread?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Tillis is not exactly that appealing, nor does he have all that many positions to begin with. Yeah, I'm willing to call it for Hagen, and we haven't even started counting.

[Angle]

Yes you can and should be upset, because if it the race was close he might have won because you* gave him that 6 instead of a 0. Thus the system made your #1 candidate lose solely because you didn't game the system like everyone else probably did and definitely should.
*replace you with everyone who voted for him and honestly ranked their candidates.

Don't get me wrong, I like the idea. It just doesn't work. IRV is just a better version of this, since you can vote highly for someone you kinda like without risking getting them elected over the guy you really like.

So just tell everyone how to "game the system", and it all equals out. I mean, I don't think it's even gaming the system - it's just using the range given to express your opinion as best you can. You only have 10 numbers, so obviously you want to use those numbers to express the most nuance. I mean, I'd already outline how this works in my first post on the subject - it's a trivial problem. There's even a computer simulation demonstrating that it doesn't much matter.

As for IRV, this system has fewer quirks- in IRV, a candidate can be eliminated simply because everyone put him in the middle of their list, and no one put him at the top. Here, no such thing can happen.

edit: Yeah, we should probably make another thread if we really wish to discuss this.

[smjjames]

The California senators aren't up for election this time around, but my congressional representative is and I'm voting against hunter as he's been in for too long.

No idea if I'll either vote for the republican governor contender or not, haven't seen any ads for either one.

Also, for some reason, the state assembly district that I'm voting for has two contenders who are both republican, I'll just vote the one who's not currently in office.

[RedKing]

Tillis is not exactly that appealing, nor does he have all that many positions to begin with. Yeah, I'm willing to call it for Hagen, and we haven't even started counting.

I don't see how they can say he doesn't have a stance on education. After the whole teacher-raises-but-not-really thing and the flap over Common Core standards.

[SalmonGod]

I can think of one possible advantage to a candidate scoring system like Angle describes, but it's on the radical side.  I doubt many will like it.

It would encourage voter honesty if there is a minimum average needed in order to be elected.  For example, if no candidate's final averaged score is above a 5, then they're eliminated, and the election is re-done.  This would give people a new incentive to vote honestly.  If someone doesn't genuinely like any of the candidates and only wants to prevent the greater evil, they have a way to meaningfully express this.

[freeformschooler]

Tillis is not exactly that appealing, nor does he have all that many positions to begin with. Yeah, I'm willing to call it for Hagen, and we haven't even started counting.

Hagan's winning hands down. I'm surprised Pizza Guy didn't "siphon" more support from both of them, but that's what you get when your campaign ads are youtube only and your campaign platform is marilization of legajuana.

[Frumple]

@SG: Thus setting the stage for the tale of the Ten Year Election leading up to the ultimate choice of Jim Crow, the Pigeon. Who was a pigeon. The 2-4 year period afterwards would end up being the best years Oregon ever experienced. Tragically, Jim's reign will be cut short three months before reelection by a cat.

[FearfulJesuit]

Mitch McConnell has officially won re-election and can "look forward" to two years of being John Boehner 2.0. Be careful what you wish for...

[MaximumZero]

I voted! Much to the chagrin of the conservatives, I'm sure.

[smjjames]

I hope Duncan Hunter gets replaced.

Other than governor, I tried to vote for whoever isn't the current holder of that office.

[ggamer]

IN GEORGIA NEWS

Jason Carter and Nathan Deal are neck and neck (state governor)

I'm not sure about David Purdue and Michelle Nunn though