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Abstract: Rank aggregation with pairwise comparisons is widely encountered in sociology, politics, economics, psychology, sports, etc. Given the enormous social impact and the consequent incentives, the potential adversary has a strong motivation to manipulate the ranking list.
The Limits of Ranked-Choice Voting. Aaron Hamlin. –. By Aaron Hamlin. In 2018, Maine became the first state to use the alternative voting method ranked choice voting1 (RCV) in federal elections. That’s good because it meant that Maine stopped using our ubiquitous choose-one voting method— largely regarded as the worst single-winner voting ...
Apr 30, 2024 · RCV advocates also claim that RCV causes candidates to take more moderate positions and campaign less negatively. They argue that, because being ranked second or lower on the ballots of other candidates’ supporters can help a candidate win, candidates will take a more moderate and conciliatory approach to seek out these lower rankings.6
- Background
- Exhausted Ballots in Elections with Ranked-Choice Voting Silence Voters
- Districts Using Ranked-Choice Voting Have Lower Voter Turnout Rates
- Ranked-Choice Voting Changes and Delays The Election Counting Process
Recent polling suggests that a majority of Americans on both sides of the aisle fear for the survival of the American democratic system.1Finding solutions to strengthen trust in the election process is essential to protecting the Republic. Ranked-choice voting (RCV), also called “instant runoff voting,” is portrayed as a viable alternative to the s...
In traditional elections, every submitted ballot that follows the instructions is counted towards the result, but this isn’t the case with RCV. “Exhausted ballots” in RCV elections do not count towards the final tally. While many RCV ballots are thrown out due to voter error in following convoluted instructions, ballots that follow the instructions...
Implementing RCV lowers voter turnout rates. For example, both Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, have run local elections using RCV for more than a decade, and both “lag well behind other major metropolitan cities in municipal election voter turnout.”15-17 In fact, comparatively lower voter turnout in jurisdictions using RCV is a consistent patt...
Perhaps the most concerning component of RCV elections is the required changes to the ballot counting process. Similar to the primary election caucus process still used in certain jurisdictions, RCV ballots must be transported to a centralized location for counting due to multiple rounds of tabulation in the event of an instant runoff, potentially ...
Oct 9, 2024 · San Francisco has expanded rank choice voting in 2024. In San Francisco's mayoral race, there are 13 candidates. New this year, voters can rank up to ten choices, instead of just three. "This ...
Aug 28, 2023 · , “Protein function prediction from interaction networks using a random walk ranking algorithm,” in 2007 IEEE 7th International Symposium on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (IEEE, 2007), pp. 42–48.
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Mar 14, 2024 · However, to rank multiple candidates, a voter should be educated on multiple candidates. A study found that uninformed voters use fewer rankings than informed voters (Boudreau et al. 2020) and the rankings of informed voters are strongly related to the voters’ policy views (Boudreau et al. 2020).
