homelycooking
Junior Chimp
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« on: September 03, 2015, 07:54:14 PM » |
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« edited: September 03, 2015, 07:55:57 PM by homelycooking »
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In French presidential elections, there are usually enough candidates in the race to guarantee that no individual candidate will get anywhere near a majority of the vote, and the runoff requires the top two to entice the sizable minorities that supported weaker candidates to join their causes. In most Atlasian presidential elections, however, most of the electorate already divides their first-preference support between the candidate of the left and of the right, and a runoff is unlikely to change that. STV already approximates the results of a runoff by distributing voters to their second- or third-preferenced candidates.
Barring the Borda count or, well, sortition, STV/IRV is about as interesting as elections can get.
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