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There is no perfect electrol system, just systems of more or less degrees of badness. Any system chosen is always a balance between simplicity and correctness.
by danieltillett 11y ago
There is no perfect electrol system, just systems of more or less degrees of badness. Any system chosen is always a balance between simplicity and correctness.
- aninhumer 11y agoHonestly, I've yet to be convinced of a serious problem with Approval/Range Voting. They even survive Arrow's Theorem by not being ranked systems. And there's obviously some variance of complexity between them, but even fine grained Range Voting isn't that hard to understand.
- ClayShentrup 11y agoScore Voting and Approval Voting are clearly the best alternative systems for single-winner elections (for multi-winner elections, many people support some form of Proportional Representation). The problem is that FairVote, which advocates IRV (apparently because it's a useful steeping stone to the their REAL goal of STV), is run by a professional liar named Rob Richie, and he disseminates a massive amount of false and misleading information about voting systems. E.g. https://sites.google.com/a/electology.org/www/fact-check https://sites.google.com/a/electology.org/www/fact-check
- nitrogen 11y agoIndeed. Approval voting seems a bit simpler to me than instant runoff, but instant runoff is better than simple plurality. If a location is considering changing voting systems though, IMO they would be best served by skipping IRV and going for approval. After that we can try to fix party line voting in the US.
- ClayShentrup 11y agoBut there's an objective measure of that degree of badness. Bayesian Regret. http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html