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RCV And STAR Voting Go Head To Head In Oregon

March 16, 2021 by Ted Getschman Leave a Comment

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RCV And STAR VotingOregon Senate Bill 791 and 343 seek to establish ranked-choice voting as the default voting system in Oregon, receiving open testimony on 16 March. Oregon House Bill 3250 aims to implement STAR voting as the default voting method.  Its hearing date is yet to be determined.

The ranked-choice voting method receives a ranking from each voter.  Each voter “votes” for the highest-ranking candidate on their list.  If no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, the method eliminates the candidate with the fewest votes from all ballots.  The process continues until one candidate receives greater than 50% of the vote.

STAR voting stands for “score then automatic runoff,”  STAR Voting uses a score voting method, in this case, a range of 0 to five with unmarked candidates receiving a set score of 0.  The automatic runoff happens between the top two score candidates where they are compared, ballot by ballot to determine which voters had preferred the most often.

If ranked-choice voting becomes the law of Oregon it will become the third state after Maine and Alaska adopt such a system.  If STAR Voting becomes the law, Oregon will go into the history books as the first state to formally use a score voting method to conduct its elections.  Score voting methods include any method where all voters score all candidates and the high score wins.  Approval voting is another such form, but the greater range of Oregon’s STAR Voting legislation offers voters more ability to show nuance on their ballot.

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About Ted Getschman

Ted Getschman has spent years examining the challenges of American polarization from an international viewpoint as he worked with U.S. ally and partner nations during his service as a U.S. Naval Officer.

His personal studies of election methods and voting theory, as well as his work in boardgame design led to his conclusion that solving our national division requires seeing political candidates as players and our election methods as defining their winning strategy and the driver of their actions, either to tear the nation apart or bring it together.

He holds a Master’s of Science in International Relations from Troy State University and developed the Swarm Age on-line tool which he continues to refine for the nation-wide Score Voting Movement. Those interested can find there a draft of his upcoming book, Solving America: How America’s Voting Methods Create Political Polarization, Government Gridlock, and Ignored Voters, and How Score Voting Methods Solve These Problems (and Why Ranked Choice Voting Can’t).

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