Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs
by chc on Thursday November 10, 2011 @07:05PM
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Top 10 lists are not a novel concept for most people. Individual votes are precisely like that. Cumulatively, the person who did the best on everyone's lists wins. It's far simpler than the system we have now.
The plural of anecdote isn't evidence, I know, but: I had Condorcet voting briefly explained to me at a young age, and I grasped it immediately. I couldn't do the math, but it was conceptually really easy to grasp. I didn't fully understand the current US system until around age 20.
Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs
by chimeracoder on Friday November 11, 2011 @01:22AM
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> I had Condorcet voting briefly explained to me at a young age, and I grasped it immediately.
Unfortunately, HN readers are not representative of the general population. It's not that complicated, no, but I can see people having a lot more trouble with understanding Concordet voting than with understanding IRV.
I had a roommate who worked for a voting reform nonprofit and he said even gathering signatures for "simple" IRV is quite challenging. It's just too hard to explain quickly.