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Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @03:29PM (#18394657)
> Yeah I guess I’m just not really invigorated by fears of “difficulty of tabulation” and “bad behavior on edge cases”.

Difficulty in tabulation affects speed of, certainty of, and confidence in results, as well as cost of implementation.

> Maybe I react differently from the typical voting system enthusiast?

Nope, especially on neglecting pragmatics like tabulation; that's practically a hallmark of voting system enthusiasts.

Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need by SilasX on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @03:37PM (#18394699)
>Difficulty in tabulation affects speed of, certainty of, and confidence in results, as well as cost of implementation.

Which doesn't rise to the level of "that is so bad it must be stopped".

>> Maybe I react differently from the typical voting system enthusiast?

>Nope,

Kind of strange, since the entire reason for my confusion and joining this thread is because of enthusiasts' doom-and-gloom about the quality of the results themselves, and how they worry about the edge cases and I don't.

Are you invigorated by the cost fears? Because they seem like a sliver compared to the cost of Gore vs Bush.