What is your favorite alternative voting system?
[Notes: • If you vote in one poll in this thread please vote in all of them • For a real world example of what I mean by "Multiround runoff" consider the French system]
What is your favorite alternative voting system?
[Notes: • If you vote in one poll in this thread please vote in all of them • For a real world example of what I mean by "Multiround runoff" consider the French system]
What is your favorite alternative voting system? (Poll #2)
[Notes: • If you vote in one poll in this thread please vote in all of them • For a real world example of what I mean by "Multiround runoff" consider the French system]
What is your favorite alternative voting system? (Poll #3)
("Instant Runoff Voting" is when you rank your choices and a multiround runoff is simulated by bumping off candidates one by one and redistributing their votes. "Approval voting" is when you get checkboxes by each candidate and can select more than one; whoever gets the most "approvals" wins.)
@mcc which one is better at expressing my desire to see one of the candidates eliminated?
i.e. if we have an election where there are 3 candidates, X, Y, and Z, and to me, the most important thing is to keep candidate X out of office, which voting system does a better job of supporting that priority? (If i *also* get to express my preference for Y vs Z, that's an added bonus.)
@fuzzychef @JamesWidman Uhh, that'll be here https://msm.runhello.com/p/category/video-games/goty You'll notice each post in this category, over time, got less and less certain about the accuracy of the Condorcet.
It looks like I didn't publish the outcome of my "real condorcet" test. I remember it being really slow (my implementation was PHP+SQL and there were over 150 options in the poll)
I might have also published the poll software somewhere, I don't remember. This was a while ago, the poll ran yearly from 2003-2013.
@mcc @JamesWidman I would suggest that if you have a poll with 150 options, Condorcet is not a good voting algo to use. It's really designed for elections with 3-16 options, where a large number of voters might conceivably rank all options.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if a case of 150 options, with 95% of voters ranking only 10 of them each, causes condorcet to produce unpredictable results.
Which gives us the general mantra: choose the vote tally method that suits your poll.