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Given US presidential elections have, twice in my lifetime, been won by person with fewer votes than another, this would not be a concerning change.
by xen0 2y ago
Given US presidential elections have, twice in my lifetime, been won by person with fewer votes than another, this would not be a concerning change.
- josephcsible 2y agoBeing nonmonotonic is way worse than that. Imagine a case where all of the ballots except one have been counted and it's really close. In IRV, it's possible that if the last ballot prefers Biden, then Trump wins, and if the last ballot prefers Trump, then Biden wins.