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First Past the Post isn't actually an ordinal system. "Ordinal" is simply a synonym of "ranked choice". Arrow's impossibility theorem isn't relevant to FPTP, bu
by lambertsimnel 7y ago
First Past the Post isn't actually an ordinal system. "Ordinal" is simply a synonym of "ranked choice". Arrow's impossibility theorem isn't relevant to FPTP, but that doesn't make it a satisfactory system.
- macawfish 7y agoAh, yeah I was wrong about that. (It does reduce to an ordinal system in a two-choice election though!)
- lambertsimnel 7y ago> (It does reduce to an ordinal system in a two-choice election though!) Yes. There was recently a two-choice election in the UK for the leader of a party that has ordinal voting as one of its policies. Amusingly, voters still ranked their choices rather than treating the election as FPTP.