[ARIN-consult] Consultation on Implementing Single Transferrable Voting for ARIN Elections
William Herrin
bill at herrin.us
Thu Feb 10 19:07:32 EST 2022
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 4:02 PM Jo Rhett <jo at jorhett.com> wrote:
> STV as proposed in the consultation can lead to unexpected and
> undesirable results including:
> * election of a candidate opposed by a clear majority of voters
>
> no, that flaw is owned exclusively by standard voting. It is not possible for a candidate who is opposed by 51% of voters to win an election with STV
Argue with the math. I demonstrated it happening right here:
https://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-consult/2022-January/001507.html.
Candidate 4 was ranked -last- by 65.5% of the voters yet STV elected
him.
-Bill
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William Herrin
bill at herrin.us
https://bill.herrin.us/
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