Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ...
by MattGaiser on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:11PM
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It can have strange results when there isn’t a clear moderate.
Canada uses it for a lot of leadership elections. What often happens is that a candidate nobody knows or really wants wins because they got picked so their vote wouldn’t go to the main competing candidate.
So you get party leaders who nobody seriously examined as the more hardcore members just needed to park their votes.
Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ...
by blibble on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:24PM
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this is a direct consequence of switching from "most popular wins" (FPTP) to "least unpopular wins" (IRV), which is a subtle but very important distinction
Canada uses it for a lot of leadership elections. What often happens is that a candidate nobody knows or really wants wins because they got picked so their vote wouldn’t go to the main competing candidate.
So you get party leaders who nobody seriously examined as the more hardcore members just needed to park their votes.