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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think people have thoughts about candidates much beyond the first one or two, and the same problems with strategic voting crop up with how you order candidates as they do if you just choose one candidate.[/quote]

In ranked-choice there is no strategic voting. Rank them in your actual order of preference. That's the appeal. [/quote]

Not true, the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem is the formal statement of the logic. Here is an example: http://probability.ca/jeff/rankedstrategic.html

But it is better than the system we have now[/quote]

I'd describe it a little more simply: the same strategic voting issues you have with 1 candidate in a multi-candidate field crop up when you do ranked choice.  You want one person to win, but don't think they will, so you vote for someone else.  Now you have to figure out your strategy for every ranking!

~6 plausible candidates is simply too many.  Ward 2 shows what can happen when you have a large primary field.  I have nothing against Pinto, but no way she wins in a smaller field.[/quote]

Same with Nadeau's last race, where she received fewer votes than the two people running against her combined. One strong candidate would have easily beaten her.[/quote]

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