On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:05:58AM -0500, Tim Peters wrote: > The rangevoting site has a great deal of info about all sorts of voting > systems. Over a decade ago, Ka-Ping Yee (who used to be very active in > Python development) ran some _visual_ voting simulations on 5 popular > systems, which scared him (& me) away from IRV forever: >
> http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/ > > """ > The following images visually demonstrate how Plurality penalizes centrist > candidates and Borda favours them; how Approval and Condorcet yield nearly > identical results; and how the Hare method yields extremely strange > behaviour. Alarmingly, the Hare method (also known as "IRV") is gaining > momentum as the most popular type of election-method reform in the United > States (in Berkeley, Oakland, and just last November in San Francisco, for > example). > """ Why am I not surprised that here in Australia, we use IRV for our House of Representatives and most state governments? -- Steve _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
