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Re:Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act by umanwizard on Monday February 14, 2022 @06:55PM (#30340391)
> If we had ranked choice you'd have a Liberal/NDP supermajority.

That's unlikely to be true, because there would be way more viable parties. Maybe you would indeed have a supermajority of left-of-center parties but you can't conclude that they'd all have the same Covid restriction policies as the current ones.

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Re:Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act by dragonwriter on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:30PM (#30340781)
> That's unlikely to be true, because there would be way more viable parties

Ranked choice (any form, not just IRV) voting systems without proportional allocation (whether multimember districts with STV, mixed member proportional, or party-list proportional, or something else) do not significantly increase the number of viable parties.

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