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1 | 1.47% |
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67 | 98.53% |
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Harik posted:IRV is a lot better than FPTP, but it still can come up with some surprising results. Should note the first scenario is identical to FPTP (a C victory), so it's questionable whether the IRV outcome is actually a problem. The second one doesn't seem to be a problem at all because "districts" aren't real things that vote, people do, also it depends on some weird ordering of preferences that seem unlikely in real party politics. How likely is it that all B voters prefer A to C (indicating that A is closer ideologically to B than C is), but most A voters prefer C to B and a most C voters prefer B to A. Like if we assume A is a Center party, B are Democrats, and C are Republicans how likely is it that most Republicans prefer Democrats to Centrists. Or if we assume A is some further left party than B (Green say), how likely is it that most Greens would prefer Republicans to Democrats. The last two seem like even more unlikely constructed scenarios that would almost never happen in an election with thousands or millions of voters and in any case would take perfect information to game. And they also depend on some unlikely ranking of preferences (how likely is it that C voters also like A, but A voters hate C and B voters hate A), again if you instantiate those three with any real parties the preferences get pretty strange. Like I guess there are always populists out there who aren't ideological and just are attracted to the fringe so maybe they'd vote Bernie->Trump->Hillary but that's a pretty small number of people IRL whereas these scenarios require Bernie->Trump voters to be like 1/3 of the electorate.
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