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It's also maddening that a single mayoral election is apparently the slam dunk counterexample. Meanwhile, Australia has been voting this way for a century. And
by jacques_chester 6y ago
It's also maddening that a single mayoral election is apparently the slam dunk counterexample.
Meanwhile, Australia has been voting this way for a century. And over that time period, I think there have been fewer ugly paradoxes than in the US.
- paulgb 6y agoI agree that Burlington is overweighted, but I also wonder: we know about Burlington because in the US, jurisdictions typically make data available down to the level of how many times each rank-order was voted. Does Australia do this? Or is it possible that Burlington-like paradoxes have happened that we just don't know about, because we've only seen the tabulation-level data?
- NickM 6y agoAustralia also uses proportional representation (STV) which is quite different from the winner-takes-all instant-runoff elections that are being referred to as "ranked choice" in the US.
- jacques_chester 6y agoOnly in the Senate. The House of Representatives is single-member electorates.
- NickM 6y agoAh thanks, my mistake - I didn't realize that.