Instant runoff voting is the system we need

Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need by quadrangle on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @04:23PM (#18402532)

I'm convinced that a "None of the Others" mark is pretty essential to making any ranked system good.

But we're talking a lot of complexity to have both ranks and scores as separate marks. Super long ballot, will turn away most voters and seem really hard to process.

It sounds like you might appreciate 3-2-1 voting. https://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/3-2-1_voting

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Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need by tunesmith on Monday November 12, 2018 @07:36PM (#18437328)

It wouldn't have to be both ranks and scores. It could just be scores. But you then order the scores numerically to infer the rank. And you use the rank to find the Condorcet Winner. If there is no CW, then you use the scores from the candidates in the Smith Set to identify the winner from that Smith Set.

(The point of the above was to respect the Condorcet Criterion, and 3-2-1 voting does not meet that criterion.)

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