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Re:US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at... by ikfmpwdsoz on Sunday October 28, 2018 @06:51PM (#18323710)
How hard is it to explain to people that their vote only goes to #2 if #1 is already out of the running?
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Re:US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at... by daphneokeefe on Sunday October 28, 2018 @07:41PM (#18323925)
Well, you only get an opportunity to explain something when they ask.
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Re:US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at... by baddox on Sunday October 28, 2018 @09:44PM (#18324373)
It’s a challenge when people have only ever been exposed to first-past-the-post voting systems their entire life.

And besides, it’s really not fair to assume that voting systems are simple to understand. Just have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_electoral_system...

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Re:US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at... by unethical_ban on Monday October 29, 2018 @10:23AM (#18327751)
I don't know why you're downvoted, but as someone advocating for RCV, I think that the "instant runoff" method is about as easy as it can get, next to the FPTP we use today.

I agree there are other methods that are better by the book than the IRV method, but are exercises in statistics and graph theory.

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