Eleven Alaska legislative candidates withdrew from the general election before the deadline to withdraw last week. See this story.
Despite the withdrawals, there are still legislative candidates from six parties: Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, Alaskan Independence, Constitution, and Veterans.
One of the problems with the RCV system used in Alaska is that it doesn’t always pick the Condorcet winner.
According to two different computations that I have seen, Begich was the Condorcet winner in the special Congressional election, yet he was eliminated.
In order to tabulate the RCV votes to determine the Condorcet winner, the rankings have to be paired between the candidates. They were not done so in the special election.
RCV = rigged majority *mandates* for left/right extremists – esp in rigged gerrymander areas – States / districts.
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Condorcet in ALL elections (with AppV tiebreaker) —-
single or multiple winners.
Sooooo – how many more gerrymander areas with NOOO D or R in AK land ???
WZ —
http://ballot-access.org/2019/05/19/two-utah-cities-will-use-ranked-choice-voting-in-municipal-elections-this-year/
Copy and paste to wake up brainwashed RCV folks.
I have to admit – az has been proved right by the Alaska special election.
Condorcet is the correct way to do RCV.
EVERY method of instant runoff voting will, under some situation, face Condorcet problems. When I was still a Green, I battled with approval voting swamis and gurus over this issue.
The former Demo Rep got one thing actually right: Proportional representation.
The garbage comment on September 13, 2022 at 3:53 pm is from Robert K Stock.
RCV more dangerous with single offices —
Less dangerous with multiple PR offices – esp higher total members in legis bodies.