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winstonewert on Nov 1, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Vot...

I'm not sure any of the alternative systems would have actually given a different result. Yes, the democrats have a majority of the vote, but transfer of support between members of a party is never perfect.

Frondo on Nov 3, 2020 [–]

I'm also not sure if this is enough of a problem to try to solve preemptively, if there's one example from four years ago from a state-level election.

If outcomes in general are better, I'll take the risk that they're occasionally worse.

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