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IRV is nowhere near the second easiest to explain. Approval voting: you can vote for any of the candidates you like, not just one. Way simpler than IRV. Scor
by quadrangle 8y ago
IRV is nowhere near the second easiest to explain.
Approval voting: you can vote for any of the candidates you like, not just one.
Way simpler than IRV.
Score voting: give any or all candidates scores.
Easy explanation.
STAR: score the candidates, there's an auto-runoff where the two highest-score candidates get checked to see which is preferred by more voters.
At least as easy to explain as IRV, and much easier to actually understand overall, particularly in making sense of the results and following what happened.
- jboles 8y agoIRV: Rank the candidates by your preference, 1st to N'th. Your vote is applied to each candidate in turn, until one wins majority (50% + 1). There -- simple!
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- dragonwriter 8y agoWell, simple because it avoids explaining a lot with “in turn”.
- soared 8y ago>N'th >in turn >50% + 1 Way too complicated for 50% + 1 of the population
- quadrangle 8y agoYour vote is NOT applied to each candidate in turn. That happens to SOME voters sometimes. But you can also have your 1st choice eliminated after your 2nd choice, and then your 2nd choice is NEVER counted.