Timeline for How will New York City physically implement the ranked choice voting algorithm with thousands of unique mayoral votings possible?
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| Jul 17, 2021 at 2:00 | comment | added | robert bristow-johnson | Isn't this question about Precinct Summability? Without it, how is the ballot information securely transported to the central tallying location, where the STV is done? | |
| Jun 24, 2021 at 13:17 | answer | added | gboffi | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 24, 2021 at 2:18 | history | edited | JJJ♦ |
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| Jun 24, 2021 at 1:50 | comment | added | uhoh | @phoog don't confuse the way the calculation is done with the result. Nothing I said suggests there are 5 unique ways. I just did the counting by separating votings that listed either 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 names, then applied permutations without repetitions to each to enumerate the number of unique ways one could validly vote using that number of names. I didn't take into account people who leave 1st and 2nd blank and only filled in the bottom three for example, assuming those would not be considered valid. | |
| Jun 24, 2021 at 1:41 | comment | added | phoog | The ballots are such that you can cast only a second-preference vote, and so on. I don't know whether those would be counted, nor, if so, how they would be counted, but the number of unique ways to mark a ballot with one vote is potentially 70, not 5. | |
| Jun 23, 2021 at 16:33 | answer | added | Zach Lipton | timeline score: 20 | |
| Jun 23, 2021 at 12:51 | comment | added | uhoh | @gidds I think that can be explored in a new (and interesting) question; the sources I've used don't specify. Perhaps different states and municipalities have chosen different flavors even. | |
| Jun 23, 2021 at 12:04 | comment | added | Chris H | Note that "several passes" isn't as suboptimal as it seems, because all but the first pass take place on the ballots which count for the remaining candidate with the lowest vote count (i.e. the ballots on which they're the highest surviving candidate). This must be less than N/n (N ballots, n remaining candidates) and in practice will be much less as the first candidates to be eliminated will be fringe options, and once people have voted for their buddy/top single issue candidate they'll rapidly get to a mainstream option. | |
| Jun 23, 2021 at 11:38 | comment | added | gidds | Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) can refer to various voting systems, though in the USA I think it usually means Instant-Runoff Voting (IRV) — is that what's meant here? | |
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| Jun 23, 2021 at 8:03 | history | edited | Philipp♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2021 at 3:37 | comment | added | uhoh | @ItalianPhilosophers4Monica in this case the 142nd example of a ranking of four choices would be 1st: 'a', 2nd: 'c', 3rd: 'b', 4th: 'n' | |
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| Jun 23, 2021 at 3:27 | comment | added | uhoh | @AlphaDraconis both nearly instantaneous and correct answers suggest the question is clear to at least two people. | |
| Jun 23, 2021 at 3:21 | comment | added | Italian Philosopher | rather than posting code, maybe post a sample ballot? | |
| Jun 23, 2021 at 3:18 | comment | added | Alpha Draconis | It's a little unclear what you're asking. Are you asking what the ballot might look like, given that there are so many possible combinations? Remember there doesn't need to be a separate box for each combination, there could just be a grid with a line for each candidate and five columns for first through fifth choice. | |
| Jun 23, 2021 at 3:15 | comment | added | uhoh | @ItalianPhilosophers4Monica see the part where it says Question: in bold font, "...but how do they implement this..." It's not about rules, it's about how the rules are implemented; by physical counting sorting 3000+ kinds of votes. | |
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| Jun 23, 2021 at 3:14 | answer | added | JJJ♦ | timeline score: 37 | |
| Jun 23, 2021 at 3:13 | comment | added | Italian Philosopher | What's your question about? The political and logistical risks and outcomes of choosing what some would consider to be an over-complicated and confusing voting system? Or the algos for it? I really don't think quoting Python code is within the intent of this site. That said, given clear rules of how the ranking works mathematically, the least of the problems is likely getting the results once the ballots have been scanned or uploaded. | |
| Jun 23, 2021 at 3:13 | answer | added | Don Hosek | timeline score: 12 | |
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