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Ranked voting and rank politics

Bob715 Wrote: Jul 19, 2009 9:27 AM
Paul Jacobs is dead on about the main problem that IRV solves and the way it solves that problem. This is a very well done article.

J. Ewing is wrong about how the principle of one-person-one-vote applies to IRV. Everybody has one vote in every runoff round. If your first choice is still in the running, why would you change your vote to someone else? IRV does not "discard" your first choice in favor of your second unless your first choice is eliminated. S/he also defines "most popular" based only on first choices. Paul Jacobs excellent article explains why that's not a great definition, and why IRV looks at second and third choices when necessary to pick a winner with majority support.

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