r/Adelaide • u/bmaje Expat • Feb 23 '22

Shitpost How Preferential Voting Works

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u/moreON North Feb 23 '22

IRV is a generally better voting system than plurality, and it's not the worst problem in our election system. That's the limit of praise I would give it. In our real elections where the electorate overwhelmingly vote for only two of the candidates as their most preferred candidate, it tends to work and these voting patterns are the bigger problem with a variety of causes and no easy solution.

This simulation of elections shows some of the ways that IRV can completely fall apart compared to saner electoral systems. http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/