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Sure, opinions are debatable. But minor candidates being spoilers have come up at all levels of elections many times for decades. Splitting the vote happens f
by karmelapple 5y ago
Sure, opinions are debatable.
But minor candidates being spoilers have come up at all levels of elections many times for decades.
Splitting the vote happens frequently, again at all levels of elections (at least nationally in terms of the primaries for US Presidents).
If you vote for your favorite candidate, and your candidate is not the last-ranked candidate, you cannot cause your candidate to lose by putting them first.
But it sounds like you’d agree that FPTP needs to go. Great, me too. That’s the real focus for me: let’s start using different methods that eliminate, even to small degrees, the problems of FPTP.
- elihu 5y agoI do agree that FPTP needs to go. I'm worried though that replacing it with RCV substitutes problems we know and understand with another set of problems that we don't know to be worried about because we haven't experienced them yet. > If you vote for your favorite candidate, and your candidate is not the last-ranked candidate, you cannot cause your candidate to lose by putting them first. Wikipedia has an example. (Technically it's two voters difference, since a change of one voter's vote would, I think, change the result at most from a win to a tie.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonicity_criterion#Instant-runoff_voting_and_the_two-round_system_are_not_monotonic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonicity_criterion#Instant...