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I get that a single-winner voting system can't satisfy all criteria, but the contortions Range/Approval voting advocates go through to rationalize its failure o
by bradbeattie 8y ago
I get that a single-winner voting system can't satisfy all criteria, but the contortions Range/Approval voting advocates go through to rationalize its failure of the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_criterion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_criterion is concerning.
- abecedarius 8y agoCandidate X is loved by a slight majority and hated by the rest. (Maybe he campaigned on kicking the minority out of the country.) Literally everyone is lukewarm about candidate Y. What outcome should we want? I can’t see this majority criterion as an absolute good.
- yourbandsucks 8y agoCandidate X for sure. I'd rather have some occasional chaos than guaranteed stagnation.