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Originally Posted by #-3
In the RCB system you end up with high ballot complexity, leasing possibly long voting lines, and people who don't know who their 2nd / 3rd / 4th choice is. It becomes undemocratic in the way our school boards currently are. In city elections I have no idea who any of the school board nominees are, it's basically just check marking a random name on a list and seeing what happens.
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Yep. Ranked ballots are favoured by highly engaged wonks. But if we want a system to be democratic, it has to be easy to understand and make choices for the average low-information voter too. Complexity presents its own barrier to fairness.