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ORIGINAL: Arthur P
What's the difference between range voting and IRV? I thought they were pretty much the same thing.
I'm not much in favor of either. After standing in line waiting for people to choose one candidate or another, I can't imagine how long it would take some people to stand there and rank 5-6 candidates in order of preference.Â*[:-]
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Range voting allows you to assign a value, say between 0-99, or to not vote at all for a candidate. So take the last Presidential ballot, here's what I could have put.
Democratic - 10
Republican - 90
Libertarian - 95
Constitution - 99
Green - 0
Independent - (no vote)
I don't know the independent candidates position, so I don't assign a value. That prevents ignorance from propelling anyone to power. I don't like the Democrats, but I find them less reprehensible than the Greens, so they get 10 percent of a vote.
Here are some of the benefits from the wikipedia article
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Range voting satisfies the monotonicity criterion, i.e. raising your vote's score for a candidate can never hurt his chances of winning. Also, in range voting, casting a sincere vote can never result in a worse election winner (from your point of view) than if you had simply abstained from voting. Range voting passes the favorite betrayal criterion, meaning that it never gives voters an incentive to rate their favorite candidate lower than a candidate they like less. Range voting advocates contend that this is a good property, because it leads to higher average voter satisfaction when voters are honest, and still gives voters the choice to strategically lower their scores for less preferred candidates if they choose.
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Basically it allows people to vote their conscious, while still voting strategically. You'd never again have to vote for the lesser of two evils, just because the guy you actually agree with has no chance of winning.
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