Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem

Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

<morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:

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Which is why some are advocating for a ranked voting system.

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Which the citizens of Alaska, IIRC, will shortly be voting on ...
prohibiting, having had actual experience with it.
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It must be pretty stinky to get enough people to sign an initiative to
prohibit it.

It's been used for the Hugos for a long time, and I think it's a good idea
when you have a large number of candidates each of which is unlikely to
obtain a majority.  But, it only works if people understand how the system
works and when putting "none of the above" in the rank can be useful.

One of the big deals with the ranked system is that it's very favorable to
minority parties compared with a winner-takes-all system, and I think that
is a thing that has the major parties strongly against it.
--scott
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