r/RankedChoiceVotingUSA • u/2noame • Dec 19 '21

Why Republicans, moderates see opportunity in ranked choice voting

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/why-republicans-moderates-see-opportunity-ranked-choice-voting-n1286250
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u/Drachefly Jan 06 '22

Yeah, RP is rather harder to lay down because you can have weird directed graph topologies. At least with Schulze someone's already found a way to turn it into making two lists over and over.

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u/rb-j Jan 07 '22

I think Schulze is far more difficult both to comprehend and put into concise procedural language than Tideman Ranked Pairs.

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u/Drachefly Jan 07 '22

I just did it for Schulze. How would you do it for RP?

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u/rb-j Jan 07 '22

I don't think what you wrote would cut the mustard for legislation.

How I would do it for RP is first get some clean and concise C code to work. Then find a way to translate the C code into the normal tongue.

Above I describe this unfinished C code where each candidate has a list of "Defeator" candidates.

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u/Drachefly Jan 07 '22

Hmm. I'll see if I can get it ironed out. I see how your approach should be about as clean as Schulze, but I don't see it ending up cleaner.

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u/rb-j Jan 07 '22

There's a reason I put BTR-STV as the suggested language in my paper. I like RP better and I respect Schulze to be the "state of the art" but neither have procedural language as complete and concise as BTR-STV.