Re:Florida bans ranked-choice voting in new elections law
by singron on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @11:19AM
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The article seems to confuse RCV (voting by ranking a list of candidates) and IRV (a specific way of choosing the winner from such ballots). I'm not sure to which the law applies. Wikipedia has a disambiguation page for RCV that lists these 2 concepts.
There are ranked voting schemes that obey the summability criterion, although they aren't as commonly used as IRV and STV.
It's also quite practical to use a non-summable method with a limited set of candidates since any non-contrived method can use a summary array of length n! by using a count of each possible ranking. E.g. a large 10 candidate election could use only a 15MB summary array.
There are ranked voting schemes that obey the summability criterion, although they aren't as commonly used as IRV and STV.
It's also quite practical to use a non-summable method with a limited set of candidates since any non-contrived method can use a summary array of length n! by using a count of each possible ranking. E.g. a large 10 candidate election could use only a 15MB summary array.