If everyone votes strategically, then it's still an okay voting system. The source for proof that it's the best is this image: Which I found is from this: https://www.electionscience.org/library/tactical-voting-basics/ despite me first finding it here: https://ncase.me/ballot/
On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 3:10 PM omd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 3:20 PM Bernie Brackett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > it feels like there's a discussion going on involving what exactly single > > transferable vote means, so I feel like I should bring up that Score > Voting > > has mathematically been proven to be better. Is there any reason not to > > switch to it? > > What proof are you referring to? Instant runoff certainly has its > downsides, but so does score voting. For example, per Wikipedia [1], > the optimal strategy for score voting is usually to give each option > either the minimum or maximum score, which then disadvantages voters > who score the options based on their actual relative preferences. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Score_voting#Strategy >
