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"If we believe that the appropriate compromise is no one's first choice" The winner in RCV will always be someone's first choice.
by lkrubner 4y ago
"If we believe that the appropriate compromise is no one's first choice"
The winner in RCV will always be someone's first choice.
- dllthomas 4y agoNo, some methods of counting rank choice ballots will sometimes pick a candidate who was no one's first choice. In particular, this must be so for any Condorcet method, because the Condorcet winner might be no one's first choice (imagine a setting where 1/3 of voters want candidate A then D, 1/3 want B then D, and 1/3 want C then D; 2/3 of voters would vote for D whether run head-to-head against A, B, or C, and yet D got no first place votes). In instant runoff it is certainly true that the winner is always someone's first choice, and that was my point - sometimes the winner the method selects should not be the winner.