You’d think midterms would be a great time to get your name out there and run high profile candidates to win House districts led by charlatans…
Let’s say one voter gives all candidates 5 stars each, except 1 who gets no stars; and another voter gives no candidate any stars, except 1 who gets 3 stars?
Couldn’t tell you the outcome unless you actually gave me the actual votes for each candidate. For personal impact, the first voters has communicated “anyone except this guy” and the second has communicated “I don’t like this guy but I hate every other option”.
STAR does have the risk of having more than two candidates win with the same rating, but the chances of that happening are astronomically low - even in town elections. You’d have to be using an insanely low number of voters for it to even be plausible.
Let’s say 101 voters each give Trump 5 stars.
Let’s say 100 voters each give RFK JR 3 stars, Biden 2 stars, and Stein 1 star.
Let’s say 100 voters each give Biden 3 stars.
301 voters
200 gave Biden stars
101 gave Trump stars
however,
Trump gets 501 stars
Biden gets 500 stars
RFK Jr gets 300 stars
Stein gets 100 stars
1401 stars, and with 501 Trump wins.
I’m not totally opposed to the idea, but it seems to have some weakness.
EDIT: just realized the math is off. 101 giving 5 stars each is 505 stars. Doesn’t change outcome, just the math’ll be slightly different.
It feels like you do not fully understand the system yet.
Yes trump and Biden win the most stars, and trump has 1 5 more stars.
Then runoff happens. It’s now a two-person race between the two individuals with the most stars.
Each person has their vote count towards the candidate they gave more stars to, with equal ratings being treated as abstained votes.
I am taking your writing to mean that if a candidate isn’t mentioned for a group, then that group gave zero stars to that candidate. So that is now 200 voters who gave more stars to Biden than trump. Biden 200 - 101 Trump. Biden wins.
The star count only matters for the first stage in narrowing the playing field to two candidates. The actual vote then occurs in runoff. That is not a flaw. The system operated as intended, and the candidate preferred by the largest portion of society won.
