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> *STV has also been described as the most proportional system.[21]:83 *The
> system tends to handicap extreme candidates because, to gain preferences
> and so improve their chance of election, candidates need to canvass voters
> beyond their own circle of supporters, and so need to moderate their
> views.[25][26] Conversely, widely respected candidates can win election
> with relatively few first preferences by benefitting from strong
> subordinate preference support.[19]
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This is on Wikipedia. This sentence alone has probably been read more times
than every article on ElectoWiki combined. The bar is low, guys. (Lower
than the bar on ElectoWiki, to be honest.)

Does anyone want to do something about it? Take the theorems from Campbell,
Kelly, and Maskin here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165176511001972
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/maskin/files/strategy-proofness_iia_and_majority_rule_manuscript_04.03.2020.pdf

So. What you have here is a mathematical proof that everyone on this
mailing list is completely right about everything. IRV and other
non-Condorcet ranked methods are just plain worse than Condorcet. These
results are well-known and well-cited, and show there's no reason anyone
should ever use RCV as anything but a Condorcet tiebreaker. The proofs are
intuitive and literally one sentence long.

And yet there were zero words on this in Wikipedia before the start of this
year, when I added the description to the article on Arrow's theorem!
There's *still* no article on the Condorcet dominance theorems! (I haven't
had time to write one, unfortunately.)

I feel like I'm going crazy. There's so much important information that
nobody's even *trying* to communicate to the average person!

Special thanks to @Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet at t-online.de> for his
past improvements to the spoiler effect article, and to @Richard, the
VoteFair guy <electionmethods at votefair.org> who's provided a bit of help
the past few months.
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