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Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by nickff on Friday October 30, 2020 @02:47PM (#24945551)
'Systemic coercion' implies outside influence; citizens suffer from a number of internal biases, entirely aside from outside issues. Please just take a look at some of the literature on voter ignorance.
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Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by clairity on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:54PM (#24946247)
there's no reasonable evidence that people are too dumb/ignorant to make a good electorate. that's primarily ego talking.

and we don't need to correct for internal biases over a population because, by definition, internal biases are uncorrelated. but you said "popular", which is a social bias that correlates beliefs.

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