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Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @03:41PM (#18394727)
> In STAR, 5 points is simply "most points" i.e. most support. It doesn't mean something semantically.

Yes, so you import the well-known cultural variation in numeric rating systems without concrete semantics for rating levels into your voting system. That's a great idea.

More data on ballots is good only as long as it has a consistent meaning and is used in a way that is consistent with that meaning.

STAR (and other score voting systems) gather noise and pretend it is signal.

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Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need by quadrangle on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:02PM (#18395668)
STAR gathers scores that voters choose when looking at the pool of candidates. It uses those in tabulating the outcome. They have an effect. There's no sense in which this is noise. I don't even understand the claim.
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