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• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What if A gets 26% of the vote, B gets 25%, C gets 24%, D gets 15%, and E gets 10%?

  The standard method of ranked choice voting: E gets eliminated as they have the last, everyone who voted for them goes to their next ranked choice. Repeat until one person has over 50%.

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  • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Please forgive any ignorance on my part, but would it be required that we’d know what the 2nd (and 3rd and 4th and so on) preferences of those who voted for E in the first choice?

    If so, and if such could be done, what if of those who voted for E on their first choice, in their second preference, half of them (i.e. half of 10% being 5%) voted for C, a third of them voted for B, and a sixth of them voted for A;

    meanwhile two-thirds of those who voted in their first preference for A, half of those who voted in their first preference for B, and a third of those who voted in their first preference for C, voted for D in their 2nd preference? —i.e. (⅔ x 26%) + (½ x 25%) + (⅓ x 24%) = 16⅔% + 12½% + 8% = 36⅚%.

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Please forgive any ignorance on my part, but would it be required that we’d know what the 2nd (and 3rd and 4th and so on) preferences of those who voted for E in the first choice?

      Yes. Please look up “How ranked choice voting works” instead of asking randos on social media to explain it to you. The information is readily available.

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      • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        wp:Ranked voting

        (my bold)

        Ranked voting is any voting system that uses voters’ rankings of candidates to choose a single winner or multiple winners. More formally, a ranked vote system depends only on voters’ order of preference of the candidates.

        Ranked voting systems vary dramatically in how preferences are tabulated and counted. This gives them different properties with respect to satisfying various voting groups and adherence to mathematical rules.

        …

        Some ranked vote systems do not use ranking to transfer votes but instead use ranks as weights. These systems are called positional voting. In the Borda method, the least-favored candidates on each ballot receive fewer points; the most-favored receive more points. The points on each ballot for each candidate are added together, and the candidate with the most points is elected.

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