[python-committers] Vote on governance will happen between Nov 16 (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Tue Oct 23 13:13:29 EDT 2018

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:05:58AM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:

The rangevoting site has a great deal of info about all sorts of voting systems. Over a decade ago, Ka-Ping Yee (who used to be very active in Python development) ran some visual voting simulations on 5 popular systems, which scared him (& me) away from IRV forever:

http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/

""" The following images visually demonstrate how Plurality penalizes centrist candidates and Borda favours them; how Approval and Condorcet yield nearly identical results; and how the Hare method yields extremely strange behaviour. Alarmingly, the Hare method (also known as "IRV") is gaining momentum as the most popular type of election-method reform in the United States (in Berkeley, Oakland, and just last November in San Francisco, for example). """

Why am I not surprised that here in Australia, we use IRV for our House of Representatives and most state governments?

-- Steve

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