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Well, maybe. Or disillusionment with IRV might spoil the waters for other attempts at reform, when people start to realize all the claims about ranked-choice el
by NickM 5y ago
Well, maybe. Or disillusionment with IRV might spoil the waters for other attempts at reform, when people start to realize all the claims about ranked-choice eliminating the spoiler effect are actually false.
Certainly that's what happened in Burlington, VT where a spoiler candidate swung the 2009 mayoral election, and IRV was subsequently repealed. They didn't say "oh oops, well this experiment failed, let's try approval voting instead"; they just went back to plurality voting and that was that.