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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone give an example (maybe using SC) of how a past election would have turned out if RCV had been used? Talk to me like I’m 10yo. I generally understand the concept, but don’t see how things would be wildly different sometimes. [/quote]m

It’s impossible to know for sure since we have no information about how voters would have ranked the different candidates. However I think what happened in Ward 3 illustrates why the city needs RCV. The 2022 Ward 3 Council election was highly competitive, with a dozen or so candidates. In the end, three candidates - Duncan, Bergman and the 18 y/o whose name escapes me - had drop out at the last second to prevent the election of Goulet. Had they not done so, it’s highly probable that Goulet would have been elected despite a majority of the ward not wanting him as their council-member. With an RCV election, you likely would have had the same outcome - Frumin elected - but without the need for candidates to drop out and be accused by the loser of having manipulated the outcome. Others can probably speak better to whether RCV would have changed the outcome of the election in Ward 1, though it seems likely.[/quote]

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