Re:What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
by elihu on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:42PM
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Yeah, it's literally "elect the candidate with the highest approval rating" which seems like a fair and reasonable outcome.
(That's assuming that people vote honestly, but according to at least one analysis [1], the outcome isn't very much less democratically optimal if people vote strategically in approval voting rather than honestly.)
(That's assuming that people vote honestly, but according to at least one analysis [1], the outcome isn't very much less democratically optimal if people vote strategically in approval voting rather than honestly.)
[1] https://electionscience.org/library/tactical-voting-basics/