Junk Election Methods

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

Don:

IRV promoters often say that Condorcet compromises when they don't
want to, or that Condorcet looks at "lower choices", which you
would rather not do. No problem. Don't vote preferences that you
don't want counted. No one will force you to compromise if you
don't want to.

But if you do vote "lower preferences", Condorcet, like Approval,
will reliably count every pairwise preference that you choose to
vote. With IRV, you can vote a preference, and it may or may not
be counted.

Some at CVD like to say that IRV never lets your lower choices
hurt your favorite. No, because it eliminates your favorite before
it lets you help a lower choice. IRV saves your favorite by eliminating
him. Electoral euthanasia.

Voting a lower choice doesn't have to hurt your favorite--IRV
hurts your favorite when it eliminates him/her based on its
arbitrary favoriteness-count.

Voting a 2nd choice, in IRV, may not hurt your favorite, but
it might not hurt your last choice either, or help your 2nd choice.

Mike Ossipoff




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