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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by empath75 on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:33PM (#19821012)
> So people who vote in isolation have less influence than people who organize and vote as a bloc.

I think that’s a feature not a bug. It would encourage people to propose plan or candidates that are acceptable to a wider part of the electorate.

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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by munk-a on Friday May 03, 2019 @08:37PM (#19823473)
The US is already feeling the pain of bloc voting though - the two party system has managed to heavily entrench itself - we need to look at voting systems that may experimentation free or cheap.

I'd much rather see IRV gain traction to remove the spoiler effect and disincentivise negative campaigning.

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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by philwelch on Saturday May 04, 2019 @03:34AM (#19825020)
IRV does a poor job of that.
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