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It might help them understand that their votes aren't actually counted multiple times - every #1 vote for a fringe candidate is, essentially just thrown out.
by googlryas 4y ago
It might help them understand that their votes aren't actually counted multiple times - every #1 vote for a fringe candidate is, essentially just thrown out.
- idlewords 4y agoI'm talking about voter perceptions and politically effective attacks on ranked choice voting, not its mathematical properties. A complete understanding of the latter by all voters would remove the problem, but practically speaking you end up in a PR fight where one side is trying to condescendingly explain a math problem to the other. That's not a good place for the explaining side to be, and in a political environment already polarized by education level, it is a losing fight. People are going to trust their gut over anything some egghead from the political opposition tells them.
- googlryas 4y agoI don't think the math really needs to be explained - just telling people how to operate it. Millions of Australians vote via a similar system and they're not all constantly scratching their head over the Condorcet paradox.
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