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> Call it "Instant Round Robin" - if one candidate would beat every other candidate head-to-head, then that candidate should win. And 90% of peoples eyes just
by flukus 7y ago
> Call it "Instant Round Robin" - if one candidate would beat every other candidate head-to-head, then that candidate should win.
And 90% of peoples eyes just glazed over, all to fix some almost entirely theoretical flaws with IRV, that's why condorcet isn't better in the real world.
- tunesmith 7y ago90% of which people, the people that are enamored by "count up all first place votes, then find the person in last place, then go look at everyone's ballots and remove that person from everyone's ballots, and then count up all first place votes again, and then repeat that process until you're left with one person and then that candidate should win"?
- flukus 7y agoIf you're number 1 choice is knocked out you're vote goes to you're number 2 choice, if they're knocked out it goes to number 3... It's not about understanding the intricacies of how the count works but understanding what their individual vote will be doing. When it comes to what you're individual vote is doing Condorcet is much more of a black box.