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By Clay Shentrup (anonymous) | Posted October 29, 2010 at 00:13:08
@Pxtl
IRV has not typically replaced Plurality Voting -- it has typically replaced top-two runoff, which indeed MAY be better than IRV.
ScoreVoting.net/HonestRunoff.html
Also the "granularity" of IRV is misleading. It is true that a voter can put down more information on a ranked ballot than on an Approval Voting ballot. With n candidates, you can rank them n! different ways, where's you can only approve them in (2^n)-2 different ways. So for 5 candidates that's 120 different ways you can rank them, vs. 32 ways you can approve them. But that's only a third of the story.
The other two important factors are:
1) How inaccurate that data is, due to incentives for the voter to "lie", and
2) How efficiently the tabulation method sums that data.
Despite common myth, IRV incentivizes voters to use the "exaggeration strategy", where they push their favorite two FRONTRUNNERS roughly into first and last place, regardless of who their actual favorite candidate is.
www.electology.org/analysis/irv-plurality
And regardless of whether you believe that, the empirical reality is that voters intuitively DO exaggerate like that when using ranked ballots.
scorevoting.net/AusAboveTheLine07.html
The voting method you're describing doesn't sound proportional to me. It sounds like cumulative voting(??). Please check out Asset Voting, which *is* proportional.
scorevoting.net/rangeVcumulative.html
scorevoting.net/Asset.html
Clay Shentrup
clay@brokenladder.com
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