Timeline for What are the actual mechanics of counting rank-choice (instant-runoff) votes?
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| Oct 13, 2020 at 17:51 | history | edited | divibisan |
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| Sep 3, 2020 at 14:57 | answer | added | O. Jones | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 3, 2020 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPolitics/status/1301399554429014017 | ||
| Aug 31, 2020 at 18:33 | comment | added | prosfilaes | Incomplete ballots only move it from n! to (n+1)!. Still a proper precinct-summable system that preferably follows the Cordecet property would be better. | |
| Aug 31, 2020 at 13:53 | history | edited | O. Jones | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 30, 2020 at 16:26 | comment | added | endolith | instantrunoff.blogspot.com/2010/07/… | |
| Aug 30, 2020 at 16:23 | comment | added | endolith | @prosfilaes Usually, because there are so many different possible combinations (don't forget about incomplete ballots!), it's not good to count them that way. Usually all the ballots have to be transported to a central location and then they are counted like a FPTP election, summing first-preferences for each ballot, eliminating a candidate, summing again, etc. This is one reason why voting reform advocates don't like IRV, and advocate other systems that are precinct-summable. | |
| Aug 30, 2020 at 8:52 | comment | added | prosfilaes | The vote counting part would most likely be counting every different ranking of candidates; if there are 5 candidates, there's potentially 5!=120 different rankings that would be tracked separately. Then once those totals are produced, use whatever rules (there's various options) for producing the victor from a set of rankings. | |
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| Aug 29, 2020 at 21:58 | history | edited | O. Jones | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 29, 2020 at 21:55 | history | edited | Rick Smith |
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| Aug 29, 2020 at 21:48 | comment | added | O. Jones | Of course we'll get rules from our government and follow them. I'm asking a general question about information flow: how complex it is, and whether there are any integrity hazards. | |
| Aug 29, 2020 at 21:45 | history | edited | O. Jones | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 29, 2020 at 21:38 | comment | added | Joe C | The thing is, there are several ways that this can be done, and we cannot know which way your state will select. You should seek guidance from your City Clerk here, and not from us. | |
| Aug 29, 2020 at 21:33 | history | asked | O. Jones | CC BY-SA 4.0 |