Felix Sargent      

@FelixSargent

🪑 of . Committed to voting method reform 🗳. Senior Engineering Manager

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    Apr 21

    My OpEd in today's ⁦⁩: Chaos reigns in San Francisco’s redistricting. Here’s a better way to do things

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  2. 5 minutes ago

    I want to rename: SPAV to PAV PAV to HPAV (Harmonic Proportional Approval Voting) Can I do this?

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  3. May 9

    South Dakota Dept Attorney General McGuigan says: Approval Voting ✅ Instant Runoff Voting ❌ Sad to see options being denied to voters in SD, but happy to see Approval Voting passing the test. Let's get Approval Voting in South Dakota!

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  4. May 9

    If you're comfortable with Python, you can generate your own proportional board entirely in the browser.

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  5. May 8

    Just learned about the prior 1996 effort to have SF move to STV. Ballot complexity is why they lost. Fascinating. Voter education is key to proportional representation.

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  6. May 8

    Fascinating. In 1996 San Francisco decided between districts and STV. The STV campaign was poorly coordinated and had no budget for education. Simplicity is important!

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  7. May 8

    Wanted: - Roundabouts - Elimination of all strodes - Separated bike lanes - Completion of the Market St plan - Commitment to more car sharing infrastructure so I can sell my car.

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  8. May 8

    I've been binge watching the amazing and now I'm wondering what I can do to encourage the already better than average to go full Dutch.

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  9. May 7

    Disclaimer, this is fantasy football, and assumes that voters for each category feel interchangeably about other candidates in the same category. It's a massive simplification. Make a copy and make your own groupings!

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  10. May 7

    A fully proportional board would be best, but an interesting compromise would be to keep districts and add 8 proportional at-large members. This brings things closer into balance.

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  11. May 7

    Here's the redone analysis of SF Voters vs the Board of Supervisors. Moderates received 52% of 1st place votes under RCV in the combined 2020 and 2018 races, but have only 27% of the seats on the 11 member board.

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  12. Retweeted
    May 5

    Approval Voting: America’s Favorite Voting Reform (blog) By Whitney Hua A growing body of polling has confirmed that Americans are losing faith in our electoral system and other democratic institutions. Read here:

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    May 5

    Pre-Roe, I was 8 yrs old. I came home from school to find my Mom lying in a puddle of blood. She was weak & asked me to call a neighbor. She was miscarrying, but the embryo would not abort. For 48 hours, she bled while doctors transfused blood, waiting. Abortions were illegal.

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  14. May 5

    How did I get this list? I looked at the votes across all the most recent district elections, and assumed that voters would support all similar candidates if given the chance. I used Score ballots to show preference for the top vote getters. Code here:

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  15. May 5

    This is city wide fantasy football, but a guy can dream.

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  16. May 5

    If you're caffeine sensitive, how long after having an accidentally caffeinated drink do you notice it?

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  17. Retweeted
    May 4

    Today I realized: Sequential Proportional Approval Voting is equivalent to List Proportional Representation with electoral fusion taken to the extreme point of one (unordered) list per voter. Votes are discounted in exactly the same way.

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  18. May 4

    An animation of a SPAV election:

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  19. May 3

    Proportional Representation. I'm sure that there are people out there who think this is just... how it works. Of course you should get representation in proportion to the number of people that vote the same way you.

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    May 3

    I’m sure it will be a relief to everyone who needs to move to California to access safe reproductive healthcare but can’t because we didn’t build homes for them that at least the neighborhood character was protected.

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  21. May 3

    Aaron Hamlin of wrote an excellent OpEd to the Juneau Empire about Alaska's tough new primary method. Great write up!

    It shouldn't be a big surprise that when you force voters to pick only one candidate when you have 48 options that you're going to have a bit of a mess.
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