Bread and Salt on Nostr: npub19wfkr…zufh6 But kind of a TL;DR explanation is that RCV is just plurality ...

npub19wfkrry8tj9gmrq4pxkqqxyzgyqfu3xunpseghv6d4gz50g4pv0sdzufh6 (npub19wf…ufh6) But kind of a TL;DR explanation is that RCV is just plurality voting over and over again. It only looks at the one layer of preferences at a time, so all the others get disregarded in a given round. In that way it replicates many of the sam pathologies as plurality voting, only with more chaos thrown into the mix. In the Alaska case, the tally algorithm didn’t know that Palin voters preferred Begich 2nd until after Begich was knocked out.