<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 2:36 PM Michael Garman <<a href="mailto:michael.garman@rankthevote.us">michael.garman@rankthevote.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Of course, these aren’t the only two options! But almost no voter is going to pay any attention to a poll where almost all the options aren’t on their ballot. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's to show people the popularity of what's "on their [public] ballot", among people familiar with voting-systems & their relative merit.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span>On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 8:33 PM robert bristow-johnson <<a href="mailto:rbj@audioimagination.com" target="_blank">rbj@audioimagination.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> On 04/04/2024 2:11 PM EDT Michael Garman <<a href="mailto:michael.garman@rankthevote.us" target="_blank">michael.garman@rankthevote.us</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Considering the options those voters will have on their ballots will be IRV and FPP, it makes far more sense to just poll those two.<br>
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Oh dear. Two choices. We have to choose between Dumb and Dumber. We have to choose between Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich.<br>
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Isn't that what RCV (or other reforms) are supposed to do for us? Give us more than two choices? Isn't there a third way? Or a fourth way?<br>
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