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I 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 w
by elihu 5y ago
I 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...