10/19/2023
Voting theory specialists are generally opposed to strategic voting strategies. As noted in an earlier article (published on 11/21/2022} they have in mind a model of how voters behave. But voters often do not behave as expected. But seen from the voters' perspective, the reason for voting strategically is often that the voting system itself it defective. It fails to allow them to adequately express how they feel. For them, strategic voting may offer them a way to more accurately express what they want. The article ends with an outline for a voting strategy for IRV voters to better approximate the advantages of BAV. The strategy will not eliminate the many faults of IRV, but it should be of some help.
1/5/2023
This article takes note of belief that IRV avoids the spoiler effect in elections with three or fewer candidates. But by describing the failure, in an IRV election with five candidates that depends on vote-splitting, it makes a strong case that this belief is mis-placed.
11/30/2023
Do IRV Voters Just Need Training?
The example in the previous article depends on vote splitting, but it also relies on the odd way that IRV treats abstentions. Voters are apt to not include candidates they are ambivalent about or whom they don't know on the ranked list they submit on their ballot. The example depends on some voters doing this as much as it depends on the vote splitting that is unavoidable with IRV when a voter judges two candidates as equally good. It does seem unlikely that better voter training could be a satisfactory solution to this problem.
2/25/2024
Illusions of Ending the Two-Party Duopoly
This article re-visits the claims of IRV advocates in promoting IRV as a viable way to end the duopoly.
3/11/2024
This article explores and gives names to several ways that different voting systems may closely resemble one-another.
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