Ranked voting

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(09-03-2022, 07:00 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I don't like the Reuters headline. It actually does harm to the RCV movement. If we were using the traditional voting method we were used to the outcome would have been the same. Palin is an idiot in her comments and the video for suggesting RCV is to blame. Here is what happens with this article, though. Twitter and Facebook users, where most of these people will see this, will share this article and ay "see! This is why we don't want RCV!" However, just below where the little snapshot of the article usually ends in those social media previews is the line that she would have won regardless.

Yeah, this is why I don't get the point of the article or this thread. She won the vote. What does ranked voting have to do with that?

If anything it kind of belittles the first Alaskan Native Congressperson from her victory, doesn't it? Makes it seem like she needed special rules to win, when she just... won. By nearly 9%, no less.