Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need
by roenxi on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @02:43PM
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> IRV result is worse than the plurality result
Huh? There isn't a clear-cut way of determining the best voting system, so how were they compare the two? That matters quite a lot.
There are situations where IRV get so complicated it is unpredictable, but living in Australia that does sometimes feel like a feature - if the polity expresses no strong consensus preference, random selection amongst candidates is not a bad idea.
> Approval voting and range voting are ... strictly better
Yeah, totally [0]. Approval voting looks like the one to use just in terms of doing what a voting system does.
Any system that lets neutrals and moderates in occasionally is better than plurality. And plurality is streaks ahead of having no choice at all.
Huh? There isn't a clear-cut way of determining the best voting system, so how were they compare the two? That matters quite a lot.
There are situations where IRV get so complicated it is unpredictable, but living in Australia that does sometimes feel like a feature - if the polity expresses no strong consensus preference, random selection amongst candidates is not a bad idea.
> Approval voting and range voting are ... strictly better
Yeah, totally [0]. Approval voting looks like the one to use just in terms of doing what a voting system does.
Any system that lets neutrals and moderates in occasionally is better than plurality. And plurality is streaks ahead of having no choice at all.
[0] http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/