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Ranked Choice Voting goes a long way to solving this as well.

• t_mann 1y ago
  Does it? Could you explain which mechanism you suggest using? Because the main results from social choice theory about ranked choice voting that come to mind seem to be all about impossibility of fair elections (eg Arrow) or even paradoxical situations such as cyclic preferences (eg Condorcet).
  • pornel 1y ago
    These kinds of perfectionism complaints keep the status quo of FPTP, which is the worst of them all.
  • cardiffspaceman 1y ago
    Since none of the proposed replacements can be perfect according to the theory, let’s just stick with the worst one. Big fat /s