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Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need by oh_sigh on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @04:21PM (#18395017)
Yes, that is a property of IRV, but in a real life situation involving hundreds of millions of voters, does this situation have an even slight chance of happening?
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Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need by xvedejas on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @06:21PM (#18395769)
Yes, other posters have linked to an example of it happening in Burlington, VT. I recall reading it happens around 20% of the time.
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Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need by oh_sigh on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:29PM (#18396191)
That only has a population of 40k so that means there are fewer than 10k voters
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Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need by xvedejas on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @10:47PM (#18396966)
More voters voting in the same way (proportionally) doesn't affect the results of IRV.
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