[FRIAM] Ranked Choice Voting app

[cody dooderson]

Glen, your response made me second guess what I thought I knew. After some
reading it turns out that instant runoff refers to single winner elections
whereas single transferable vote refers to multi winner elections. Voting
schemes are a deep pond and I am not an expert, but from what I can tell
RCV schemes are preferred by the experts as the most fair system.
IMO the major problems with the USA's plurality voting scheme is vote
splitting (Rubio and Kusich split the reasonable republican vote while
Trump won all of the name-recognition/wackadoodle vote) and stategic voting
("A vote for the green party is a vote for trump" paradigm). Both of which
are not considered problems in ranked choice voting.

Cody Smith


On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 9:47 AM ∄ uǝlƃ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> When discussing the gaming of the system, it's best to identify the *type*
> of RCV being used. I think the Ausies use instant-runoff, which (again, I
> think) is more susceptible to accidentally choosing a wacko than
> *purposefully* choosing your person.
>
> On 6/22/20 8:45 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> > AAAAH!. Ok I think I understand where you are coming from.  ^_^ When I
> get back from adulting (Joke: Am an adult? since when?)I'll watch. It my
> hunches are that the candidates that run and get picked for what
> ever position We don't get much diversity for pet projects. And that their
> is a lot of finger pointing.  Media  distortions from little things like
> zooming in on crowds to make them look larger then they are, to bigger
> things, like focusing more on particular candidates isn't helping.
> > And yeah having two more or less stuck platforms might also be a part of
> that mess.
> > Right now we had 3 very different candidates. But then vermot and one of
> the other states basically held their votes without even offering mail in
> votes. Much less something online. And we see what that lead to.
> >
> > I didn't know Australia let you vote for more than 1 person. Isn't santa
> fe supposed to have that?
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 9:24 AM cody dooderson <d00d3rs0n at gmail.com
> <mailto:d00d3rs0n at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     The point is that the problem with our voting system is very subtle.
> It is too easily manipulatable even if every vote is counted.
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