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Re:Your company can increase voter turnout: make Election Da... by IncRnd on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @10:15PM (#16174382)
> Statements like the above are one of the reason we don’t see voting system reform in the US. Every time someone discusses reform, people make over-the-top claims like the above (“almost as bad a plurality voting.”)

Bucklin Voting's issue is that it can elect the candidate that is everyone's last choice.

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Re:Your company can increase voter turnout: make Election Da... by ClayShentrup on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:58AM (#16177491)
Possible does not mean probable. Bayesian Regret figures show Bucklin performing quite well.

http://ScoreVoting.net/StratHonMix.html

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Re:Your company can increase voter turnout: make Election Da... by IncRnd on Thursday January 18, 2018 @10:50AM (#16177974)
You are interpreting that in the wrong way. Just quoting a webpage doesn't lend credence. The methodology is what should be investigated. It's easy to visualize a probable scenario that breaks Bucklin Voting in this political climate.

There are ten candidates. Candidate J is least liked by everyone. Nobody else has a majority until the final preference votes are counted. At that time, the entries are tremendously skewed towards Candidate J, and he wins with the clear majority.

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Re:Your company can increase voter turnout: make Election Da... by ClayShentrup on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:00PM (#16181396)
It is a mistake to focus on individual properties.

http://scorevoting.net/PropDiatribe.html

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Re:Your company can increase voter turnout: make Election Da... by IncRnd on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:10PM (#16181491)
> It is a mistake to focus on individual properties.

That doesn't apply. It is important to filter out voting systems that degenerate into the opposite of their goals. I don't understand why you say that is a mistake. This has nothing to do with a comparison but removing a poor voting system that does not meet the criteria.

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