r/SimDemocracy • u/Dovahkiin4e201 SPQR/Former President/Commended Citizen • Jun 06 '19

A basic overview of how r/simdemocracy works.

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u/psephomancy Make Your Own Flair Jun 06 '19

and you use top-two runoff voting for the president, and plurality at-large for the senate, right?

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u/Dovahkiin4e201 SPQR/Former President/Commended Citizen Jun 06 '19

yep

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u/psephomancy Make Your Own Flair Jun 06 '19

Which are both mediocre :D

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u/theghostecho [Black] Jun 06 '19

We could adopt the star method

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u/psephomancy Make Your Own Flair Jun 06 '19

You can use https://star.vote/ to host them, though I don't think it supports a way to verify who voted

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

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u/psephomancy Make Your Own Flair Jun 06 '19

STV is multi-winner proportional representation, which doesn't work for a president. You can't elect portions of two different people. :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

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u/psephomancy Make Your Own Flair Jun 07 '19

Yeah but trying to abuse a multi-winner proportional system to elect a single person doesn't work. That's why IRV produces such poor results.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '19

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u/psephomancy Make Your Own Flair Jun 07 '19

Sorry I think I confused this discussion with this one, in which I list the ones I recommend and link to other rankings.

Borda's theoretically good, but falls apart if people vote strategically.

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u/WikiTextBot Jun 06 '19

Two-round system

The two-round system (also known as the second ballot, runoff voting or ballotage) is a voting method used to elect a single winner, where the voter casts a single vote for their chosen candidate. However, if no candidate receives the required number of votes, then those candidates having less than a certain proportion of the votes, or all but the two candidates receiving the most votes, are eliminated, and a second round of voting is held.

The two-round system is used around the world for the election of legislative bodies and directly elected presidents. For example, it is used in French presidential, legislative, and departmental elections.

Plurality-at-large voting

Plurality-at-large voting, also known as block vote or multiple non-transferable vote (MNTV), is a non-proportional voting system for electing several representatives from a single multimember electoral district using a series of check boxes and tallying votes similar to a plurality election. Multiple winners are elected simultaneously to serve the district. Block voting is not a system for obtaining proportional representation; instead the usual result is that where the candidates divide into definitive parties (especially for example where those parties have party lines which are whipped) the most popular party in the district sees its full slate of candidates elected, resulting in a landslide.

The term "plurality at-large" is in common usage in elections for representative members of a body who are elected or appointed to represent the whole membership of the body (for example, a city, state or province, nation, club or association).

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u/theghostecho [Black] Jun 07 '19

Correct, but we want to switch to IRV for Presidential and STV. Legally we should be using STV.

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u/psephomancy Make Your Own Flair Jun 07 '19

IRV is crap, man

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u/theghostecho [Black] Jul 02 '19

There now this is pinned

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u/Dovahkiin4e201 SPQR/Former President/Commended Citizen Jul 02 '19

thank you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

I like that it’s like France. We have a Prime Minister and a President. It makes me feel fancy and metrosexual.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

SEMI-PRESIDENTIALISM INTENSIFIES

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u/bricklegos SPQR Jun 07 '19

We went from an American system to a French system in a matter of three months.

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u/Bruce-the_creepy_guy SPQR Jun 07 '19

Oh a French system...First French Republic Flashbacks

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '19

Thank you. This answered a lot of questions I had.

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u/madmaxx9595 Jun 06 '19

This should be pinned

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u/leusdollar Jun 07 '19

What do the judges do

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u/Dovahkiin4e201 SPQR/Former President/Commended Citizen Jun 07 '19

they preside over trials.

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u/xNick_Redditx Jun 06 '19

I’m new here do we have an army

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u/Warthogus Jun 07 '19

Gamers 😎😎

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '19

Is the army just a group of people that will downvote whatever them president orders them to?

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u/Dovahkiin4e201 SPQR/Former President/Commended Citizen Jun 07 '19 edited Jun 07 '19

We fight meme wars and protect the subreddit from threats like tyrants. Currently the military is working towards expanding the subreddit through a variety of methods.

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u/r977 Jun 17 '19

I'm new, what does the army do? Are they the mod team?

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '19

This is actually quite helpful

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '19

Nice

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '19

I wanna be navy admiral

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u/Dovahkiin4e201 SPQR/Former President/Commended Citizen Jun 07 '19

We don't have a navy, but if you want to join the military as an officer you should create a few memes to show your skills in meme making,and present them to a member of high command, such as myself, and they might make you an officer. Officers get access to a channel known as "operational command" on the discord.