[EM] Hay guys, look at this...

[robert bristow-johnson]

> On 02/17/2023 9:44 PM EST Forest Simmons <forest.simmons21 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Suppose the whole election was to choose one of the three candidates ... no noncycle members were in the election at all.
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> Would you recommend FPTP Plurality over Approval?
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I dunno.  I would recommend Condorcet RCV and, only in the super-rare case of a cycle, I would recommend plurality of first-choice votes because it's no worse than we already have now with FPTP and it's simple to explain to voters why that one candidate (the one with more first-choice votes than anyone else) is, in some sense, uniquely more preferred by the electorate over any other candidate.

In a competitive 3-way race, I dunno if Approval would be better than FPTP.  I *do* know, if it were Approval, that I would have a tactical decision to make regarding my second-favorite candidate.

But with RCV, I would have no tactical decision to make.  I would know immediately what I would do with my second-fav.

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