[EM] inaccurate Fargo approval voting results

[Michael Garman]

Oh no…it only works 99.2% of the time! The horror!

On Sat, Jun 8, 2024 at 4:18 PM robert bristow-johnson <
rbj at audioimagination.com> wrote:

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> > On 06/08/2024 4:06 PM EDT Michael Garman <michael.garman at rankthevote.us>
> wrote:
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> > Apologies; I misread your post and that’s not what you said.
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> You may have noticed that I quoted *your* organization (that has a nice
> mugshot of you), not FairVote.
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> > The guarantee is that you’ll get to vote that way, not that you’ll
> always win.
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> And it's a false guarantee.  Proven so in four RCV elections (about 0.8%)
> in the U.S.  Two of those four elections could have provided that comfort
> (there is no guarantee) to voters, but for the failure of the method to
> tally the vote.
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