Having spent time with data on the use of proportional ranked-choice voting in New York City, I read a recent commentary in Jacobin with some surprise. This piece asserts that the system “boosted”…
— Read on medium.com/3streams/proportional-representation-in-new-york-city-did-not-boost-the-left-7369d94f484b
I find this a strange terminological revisionism. STV is a system of proportional representation – it tries to treat votes as equally as possible, given the district magnitude. If all PR were list-PR we wouldn’t need the term ‘list-PR’.