Re:What Is Voter Satisfaction Efficiency?
by roenxi on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:33AM
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> It degenerates to pretty much the same problem as Plurality voting, with maybe slightly better chance to get out of bad equilibriums in the long run.
No, in practice, because the top two contenders are likely to be two who are actually popular.
Plurality voting typically finds an equilibrium where the "two most popular" candidates are both extremists.
http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/ has some nice plots showing how the two most popular candidates change from centrists under approval voting to relative extremists under plurality. (I advocate IRV because when in doubt the voting system should degenerate into random chaos. 1 person in 100 shouldn't be a big enough margin to secure power as a principle either)
No, in practice, because the top two contenders are likely to be two who are actually popular.
Plurality voting typically finds an equilibrium where the "two most popular" candidates are both extremists.
http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/ has some nice plots showing how the two most popular candidates change from centrists under approval voting to relative extremists under plurality. (I advocate IRV because when in doubt the voting system should degenerate into random chaos. 1 person in 100 shouldn't be a big enough margin to secure power as a principle either)