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An individual person might not be able to coordinate such a thing, but you can bet that campaign strategists are going to be very interested in crafting their m
by elihu 5y ago
An individual person might not be able to coordinate such a thing, but you can bet that campaign strategists are going to be very interested in crafting their messages to get the results they want. I mean, right now we have campaigns and PACs that sometimes promote a minor candidate they're ideologically opposed to because they'll siphon votes away from their major-party opponent.
What strategies will they employ in RCV elections? I don't know, but given the way campaigns already operate with continuous polling, elaborate voter databases, and modern ad-tech that can target exactly the right message to exactly the right people to influence their behavior slightly, I see election systems with wonky outcomes as an attack surface against democracy.
> The system has too much chaos.
There's too much fog-of-war for individual voters to make optimal strategic voting choices, but the Cambridge Analyticas of the world can use that to their advantage. I don't like that information asymmetry, and it seems the best way to defend against it is to have voting systems that are as close to the ideal (which is that candidates win by having the most public support) as possible.