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Re:Maine Ranked Choice Voting Initiative Approved by BenElgar on Monday November 14, 2016 @08:32PM (#12954901)
In my mind, the problem with Approval Voting is that it's harder to decide how one should vote. What's the cut-off? Do I vote for everyone I really believe in? Or everyone I don't loathe? And it's exactly that sort of question which leads to tactical voting. With IRV it's easy. Just order them until you're indifferent to the rest of the candidates.
Re:Maine Ranked Choice Voting Initiative Approved by ClayShentrup on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @02:17AM (#12956242)
Re:Maine Ranked Choice Voting Initiative Approved by nitrogen on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:56AM (#12956163)
It seems to me that AV should lead to basically the same results regardless of people's individual cutoffs. I think it's more important to avoid the nonmonotonicity of IRV.