[EM] IRV in Burlington VT

[Warren Smith]

>> San Francisco got a factor 7 increase in ballot spoilage when they
>> switched to
>> IRV, see
>>   http://www.rangevoting.org/SPRates.html
>
> And Range would have no spoilage problem?  Need better educating?
> simpler rules?

--range is of course not immune to spoiled ballots, but it seems to do
better than
rank-order ballots (IRV, specifically) and (and this part is
surprising) plurality voting,
at reducing spoilage.

But range is not better than approval voting at reducing spoilage &
voter errors.

See   http://www.rangevoting.org/SPRates.html

although this page could use some updating (it refers to various new data,
which you can examine via hyperlink, but ought to be updated to incorporate that
data directly; if you edit this page's plaintext source to do that &
email result to me that'll happen)

-- 
Warren D. Smith
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