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A non-ridiculous voting methodology for Delegate
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Frankly, there's no such thing as "running IRV until we have two people left." IRV is a voting system for single-winner elections. The forum Delegate election is a ranked ballot with two winners. That's called ranked choice voting. This is how it works: http://www.fairvote.org/multi_winner_rcv_example

When I vote for our Delegate selections on the forum, I'm voting for two people to send to the gameside. Not just one person. If not, then there was no point in moving to preferential voting in the first place. But as it stands, if my first preferred choice wins the first round, the rest of my ballot is thrown out. That's not acceptable. I write my ballot with two spots in mind, not just one!

I propose we amend the Elections Act to use STV, which is an actual multiple-winner system:

Quote:c. The two candidates ranked first and second under IRV elected under a single transferable vote ballot will move to a second round of voting conducted via a poll of Native World Assembly members.

There are many online ballot counters for STV. I like this one, personally: http://paul-lockett.co.uk/stv.html


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A non-ridiculous voting methodology for Delegate - by sandaoguo - 01-08-2017, 10:16 PM



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