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Tactical voting is still a thing in AV. If I think A > B > C, I might still want to vote A > C > B in an effort to drop B out first (hopefully giving A an easy
by jsnell 12y ago
Tactical voting is still a thing in AV. If I think A > B > C, I might still want to vote A > C > B in an effort to drop B out first (hopefully giving A an easy win in a showdown with C).
- danieltillett 12y agoThis is not the way AV voting works. The second votes of the last candidate are distributed to the remaining candidates and the process repeated until their is a winner. There is no need to vote tactically because your vote never passes to your last placed candidate. Even in the worst case scenario where all the candidates other than your two least favourites remain then your votes goes to your second least favourite candidate without ever benefiting your most disliked candidate.