---
title: ranked voting
categories:
- culture
content-tags:
- government
- politics
- voting
---

[Ranked voting systems][1] permit the voter to select multiple candidates, indicating an order of preference.

   [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system#Ranked_voting_methods

Although [instant runoff][2] is more popular and [Condorcet][3] is the most "accurate", I prefer [approval voting][4] as a [pragmatic][5] solution that is more supportive of third-party candidates.  (I, personally, would love to vote Libertarian for representative legislators, without feeling I was "throwing my vote away" and giving up the chance to vote against the worst of the available fascists.)

   [2]: http://www.fairvote.org/irv/
   [3]: http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/politics/condorcet.html
   [4]: http://approvalvoting.org/
   [5]: http://electionmethods.org/action.htm
