Some readers of this series on Balanced Voting may have noticed that it includes a sub-series on Ranked Voting. I have maintained that sub-series because of the high level of interest in IRV. There remains a high level of interest in those articles but now there are forty of them and it seems as though some additional help is needed for navigating among them. The purpose of this article is simply to give a brief synopsis of what to expect from reading the article.
6/2/2014
What's Wrong With Instant Runoff Voting?
This was the very first of these articles about Ranked-choice Voting (IRV). It mostly addresses the complexity of the system and the difficulties it causes for voters who may consider multiple candidates as equally good or bad.
6/3/2014
Instant Runoff Balanced Voting (IRBV)
Many articles in the Balanced Voting series introduce and criticize one or another voting system that is balanced (allowing voters the choice of voting either support or opposition. This one introduces a system that, mimicking IRV, tallies the ballots iteratively, but with the individual iterations being conducted using a balanced voting system, Balanced Plurality Voting, that is otherwise like plurality voting.
6/17/2014
Next to IRV, Approval Voting is probably the second most widely known alternative voting system. It has been favored in academic circles but not in political ones. This very short article re-visits a problem that IRV suffers from when voters are faced with multiple candidates seeming equally good or poor choices. In contrast, approval voting is an evaluative system that allows voters to assign identical ratings to similar candidates.
2/16/2016
Self-Expression Versus Actual Effectiveness in Voting
No doubt there are many explanations for the popularity of IRV, but undeniably it is appealing to voters accustomed only to plurality voting. So, it surprised me, when I first started thinking seriously about voting systems, that this enthusiasm was not often shared by serious students of voting systems. Voters (who greatly outnumber the technically inclined) seem focused on expressing themselves and IRV does appear to offer a grand opportunity for expression. But technicians tend to be to be more cautious about what may be hidden flaws in a complicated system. This article was the first of several articles to present an example of things that might go awry in IRV elections. It illustrates an election in which the first candidate to be eliminated was surely the consensus candidate whom voters would most widely support.
4/10/2016
Isn't IRV a Great System for Voting?
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