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The difficulty here is parsing out * people's sincere preferences * people's reported preferences in surveys * people's strategic voting in a hypothetical sc
by bradbeattie 10y ago
The difficulty here is parsing out
* people's sincere preferences
* people's reported preferences in surveys
* people's strategic voting in a hypothetical scenario
* and people's strategic voting in the real world.
I'd argue that an ideal system allows those four to collapse into one, but I'm not holding my breath.
In honesty though, I don't know. I'd assume this type of failure would occur whenever the largest demographic's second choice isn't the first choice of the second largest demographic (read: quite often), but that's armchair guessing.
- mjhoy 10y agoI read through the links in the comment above, and I'm not convinced by many of the arguments, including the theoretical voting situations, because it seems they are quite unrealistic in practice, while the current two-party system has many times given us a bad result that would have been solved by ranked choice. I'm thinking about actual Maine politics here. (Although I grant that this has the potential to change the existing liberal/conservative dynamics entirely.) I'm much more convinced about the argument against complexity, because I don't trust the state government much to design something clear and simple, and it's not yet clear to me that ranked choice is "simple". I hope they do. In any case I'm very excited to see what happens.