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Even before he won there were articles in the Atlantic suggesting that ranked choice voting was undemocratic and leading to the results not reflecting the peopl
by ZeroGravitas 1y ago
Even before he won there were articles in the Atlantic suggesting that ranked choice voting was undemocratic and leading to the results not reflecting the people's votes (which is the exact opposite of the truth).
- jfengel 1y agoCan you elaborate on that? In particular: how are they (and you) defining "truth" here? Are they claiming that people are using the ranking system incorrectly? Or that they're using it correctly-but-strategically, ending up with unintended consequences? Arrow's Theorem says that there isn't any ground truth in a multiway election. That is, you can always define some not-unreasonable set of criteria to lead to any outcome you want. I'm skeptical of ranked-choice voting (or any other voting scheme) to resolve the problem that people feel unheard -- at least in the general case. It sounds like you think the outcome in this case does reflect the sense of the people, and I'm interested in that.