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What do you see as the problem with IRV?
by whatusername 15y ago
What do you see as the problem with IRV?
- moultano 15y agoThe most extreme minority gets their second choice votes counted first. This leads to some absurd non-monotonicities. http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/ http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
- vidarh 15y agoIt's still single seat. It has most of the same problems as straight plurality single seat elections.
- eftpotrm 15y agoExactly; so many of the problems of under-representation are due to minority groups having disparate, rather than concentrated, power bases and so failing to achieve the threshold for election in any single seat in spite of having more than enough supporters more widely. STV (IRV with multi-member constituencies) or regional top-up lists can both mitigate this. Neither is perfect, but they certainly help.