Re:Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City
by lambertsimnel on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @04:24PM
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First Past the Post isn't actually an ordinal system. "Ordinal" is simply a synonym of "ranked choice". Arrow's impossibility theorem isn't relevant to FPTP, but that doesn't make it a satisfactory system.
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Re:Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City
by macawfish on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @04:46PM
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Ah, yeah I was wrong about that. (It does reduce to an ordinal system in a two-choice election though!)
Re:Ranked-choice voting is on the ballot in New York City
by lambertsimnel on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @04:59PM
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> (It does reduce to an ordinal system in a two-choice election though!)
Yes. There was recently a two-choice election in the UK for the leader of a party that has ordinal voting as one of its policies. Amusingly, voters still ranked their choices rather than treating the election as FPTP.