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[python-committers] Vote on governance will happen between Nov 16

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Tue Oct 23 13:13:29 EDT 2018 
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:05:58AM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:

> The rangevoting site has a great deal of info about all sorts of voting
> systems.  Over a decade ago, Ka-Ping Yee (who used to be very active in
> Python development) ran some _visual_ voting simulations on 5 popular
> systems, which scared him (& me) away from IRV forever:
> 

>     http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
> 
> """
> The following images visually demonstrate how Plurality penalizes centrist
> candidates and Borda favours them; how Approval and Condorcet yield nearly
> identical results; and how the Hare method yields extremely strange
> behaviour. Alarmingly, the Hare method (also known as "IRV") is gaining
> momentum as the most popular type of election-method reform in the United
> States (in Berkeley, Oakland, and just last November in San Francisco, for
> example).
> """

Why am I not surprised that here in Australia, we use IRV for our House 
of Representatives and most state governments?



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Steve
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