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Does it? Could you explain which mechanism you suggest using? Because the main results from social choice theory about ranked choice voting that come to mind seem to be all about impossibility of fair elections (eg Arrow) or even paradoxical situations such as cyclic preferences (eg Condorcet).





These kinds of perfectionism complaints keep the status quo of FPTP, which is the worst of them all.

Since none of the proposed replacements can be perfect according to the theory, let’s just stick with the worst one.

Big fat /s




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