Timeline for Does preferential voting disadvantage minor parties and independents?
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 9:41 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 26, 2020 at 6:57 | comment | added | Tgr | Arrow's theorem can be generalized to all kinds of things. For multi-winner races with ranked voting systems, that would be the Duggan–Schwartz theorem. | |
| Jan 25, 2020 at 1:18 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | @user1605665: Those people you are hearing from are... mistaken, and haven't learnt their lesson from Nader/Gore/Bush Jr. In FPTP, a spoiler candidate can split the vote, and make the most disliked candidate the winner, which means minority candidates are pressured not to run at all. | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 23:03 | comment | added | user1605665 | @DavidHammen yep I think the link needs to be fixed | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 22:28 | comment | added | user1605665 | @Oddthinking I've no problem with a bit of extra context in the answer by your response I thought I gave the wrong link by mistake. It's useful to have the two discussed because whenever I hear someone complain that a minor party with lots of votes does not get representation they think first past the post is the answer | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 9:16 | comment | added | David Hammen | @user1605665 - The link you provided in you comment does not compare preferential voting to first past the post. It instead compares preferential voting to proportional voting. | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 7:10 | history | edited | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Toned down the Arrow's Impossibility Theorem claim, in response to comments.
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| Jan 24, 2020 at 7:05 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | @Acccumulation: :-0 I didn't know that! Interesting. My main reason for including a reference was to ensure I didn't come across as a biased zealot for Preferential Voting. I am thinking about how to edit it now. | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 7:03 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | @user1605665: That was the page I was referring to - it doesn't mention FPTP, but it does mention (in context of the site) Proportional Voting. I am making a generous interpretation, describing their claim as an unclear comparison to Proportional Voting. If you want to make a less generous interpretation, and suggest they are comparing to FPTP, then the claim is flat wrong, and I think the Peter Chen quote covers it. | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 6:41 | comment | added | Acccumulation | Arrow's impossibility theorem, at least in its standard form, applies to single candidate races, not to multiple member districts. | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 6:23 | comment | added | user1605665 | It appears I did not include the exact page on the weebly site that specifically refers to preferential vs first past the post votingsystemspreferentialandproportional.weebly.com/… | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 1:58 | history | answered | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |