Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need
by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @04:09PM
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Limited to the Smith set, but sure. Same as lots of places do with FPTP and a tie; no Condorcet winner is effectively a “Condorcet tie” between the members of the Smith set, each of whom beats every candidate outside the set, but where victory within the set is undeterminable.
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Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need
by iainmerrick on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @04:17PM
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Yes, UK elections use coin tosses on ties. It’s pretty rare to get an exact tie when thousands of people are voting, though, and it’s also hard to argue against the coin toss when literally nothing separates the two candidates.
The Smith set tie would occur more often, and in complex scenarios where it really isn’t clear that it actually is a dead heat.
Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need
by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @04:22PM
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You can do other tiebreakers in the Smith set, like plurality first-rank winner in the Smith set (proceeding down preference ranks, with random selection only if you fall off the bottom without resolving the tie.)