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Ranked voting is dumb and terrible

It's like a round robin playoff format with no single elimin...
The Goy World
  06/25/25
reddit loves it and suggests implementing it in every electi...
;..........,,,...,,.;.,,...,,,;.;.
  06/25/25
The other thing brilliant about the NYC mayor race is that a...
The Goy World
  06/25/25
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Ass Sunstein
  06/25/25
It's dumber than that, ranked voting is for the primary only...
.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,...,,..,.,.,
  06/25/25
Byzantium had a more sensible system
The Goy World
  06/25/25
Don't be mean to Justinian :(
.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,...,,..,.,.,
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It lasted over 1000 years. Of course it had a great system....
Dickey Simpkins
  06/26/25
Lindy
woah
  06/26/25
It worked in practice but not in theory
manic pixie dream litigator
  06/26/25
This makes sense to me because while ranked choice is stupid...
.,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,...,:,...:..:.,:.::,.
  06/25/25
yeah let's just have a system rigged for two terrible partie...
Juan Eighty
  06/25/25
If there were a viable third party it wouldn't be a waste of...
The Goy World
  06/25/25
that AVP "whoever wins, we lose" movie poster need...
"'''""""'"'
  06/25/25
CR. A bunch of NYC fags elected a musbro terrorist, but tha...
.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,...,,..,.,.,
  06/25/25
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your ex is happier without you
  06/25/25
voting for two choices is the only kind of voting that actua...
mad niggerish
  06/25/25
yeah it’s very reddity
blow off some steam
  06/25/25
Hey, Vsauce! Michael here.
;..........,,,...,,.;.,,...,,,;.;.
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mad niggerish
  06/25/25
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The Goy World
  06/25/25
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blow off some steam
  06/25/25
*voting is dumb and terrible
Ass Sunstein
  06/25/25
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Dunedain cowboy
  06/25/25
Reddit loves it so yeah
..,,....,,.,..,,..,,...,...,,....,...,
  06/25/25
democracy sucks, but at the very least you have to give norm...
mad niggerish
  06/25/25
What it is is it's voting twice. You're voting for someone y...
The Goy World
  06/25/25
It seems to me that ranked voting will go away naturally wit...
disco fries
  06/25/25
? If somebody has strong enough support that people ranking ...
.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,...,,..,.,.,
  06/25/25
I don't like ranked choice voting because suppose someone ra...
Ass Sunstein
  06/25/25
Ding ding ding we have a winner
The Goy World
  06/25/25
cons hate it because it optimizes for voter preference while...
''"'"''"''''"""'''
  06/25/25
TITCR
Juan Eighty
  06/25/25
Yeah if anyone chooses their next leader by secret cabal and...
The Goy World
  06/25/25
At least Kamala got over 50% of the vote for VP. Trump&rsquo...
''"'"''"''''"""'''
  06/25/25
This is truly the greatest argument I have ever heard about ...
The Goy World
  06/25/25
Biden also won a majority of the vote twice as VP and once a...
''"'"''"''''"""'''
  06/25/25
no one cares how CA, NYC and Chicago vote you stupid faggot....
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  06/26/25
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  06/26/25
Trump will never be President now
The Goy World
  06/26/25
TI, OC, TCR
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your ex is happier without you
  06/25/25
i live in a state with ranked choice voting and where decent...
your ex is happier without you
  06/25/25
So just vote for the third party then? Why do you deserve so...
The Goy World
  06/25/25
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wdym "why do you deserve?" as if theres some moral...
massive ordnance penetrator
  06/26/25
which is exactly what happened in nyc. in deep blue monop...
massive ordnance penetrator
  06/26/25
I literally don't care about the mayor of NYC I just hate ra...
The Goy World
  06/26/25
you've mentioned nyc multiple times itt and the thread is to...
massive ordnance penetrator
  06/26/25
elections should only have one candidate. avoids all the fig...
Gorgeous Mamdani
  06/25/25
A round robin playoff is better than single elimination beca...
JunkoEnoshima
  06/25/25
right that's why the final 4 teams in every sport each play ...
The Goy World
  06/25/25
its abusable right as in u dont give yer true rank preferenc...
VoteRepublican
  06/26/25
cr it benefits people who vote tactically and dishonestly, a...
manic pixie dream litigator
  06/26/25
...
mad niggerish
  06/26/25
It does a far better job of picking the candidate who reflec...
LathamTouchedMe
  06/26/25
It resulted in the most left-wing candidate winning literall...
manic pixie dream litigator
  06/26/25
Ranked choice didn’t figure at all. He won without it....
LathamTouchedMe
  06/26/25
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The Goy World
  06/26/25
the big brain counter to this is that avoiding what "Th...
mad niggerish
  06/26/25


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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: The Goy World

It's like a round robin playoff format with no single elimination. Truly idiotic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048438)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: ;..........,,,...,,.;.,,...,,,;.;.


reddit loves it and suggests implementing it in every election worldwide. that's all you need to know.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048441)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:37 AM
Author: The Goy World

The other thing brilliant about the NYC mayor race is that all the same characters are on the ballot again in November. So it's like what was the point? We got faggy ranked voting but technically no one was actually eliminated? So we get to rank vote them again? Liberals really do hate life and themselves.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048445)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:46 AM
Author: Ass Sunstein



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048465)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:50 AM
Author: .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,...,,..,.,., ( )


It's dumber than that, ranked voting is for the primary only. You only get one vote in the general.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048473)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: The Goy World

Byzantium had a more sensible system

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048483)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:55 AM
Author: .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,...,,..,.,., ( )


Don't be mean to Justinian :(

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048488)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 2:17 PM
Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,...,:,...:..:.,:.::,.




(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49049044)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 10:49 AM
Author: Dickey Simpkins

It lasted over 1000 years. Of course it had a great system.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49051117)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 11:17 AM
Author: woah (hitler did nothing wrong)

Lindy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49051175)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 11:17 AM
Author: manic pixie dream litigator

It worked in practice but not in theory

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49051177)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 2:17 PM
Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,...,:,...:..:.,:.::,.


This makes sense to me because while ranked choice is stupid, political parties can run their primaries however they want.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49049046)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Juan Eighty

yeah let's just have a system rigged for two terrible parties forever.

I love having to pick the lesser of two evils or throw my vote in the garbage

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048448)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:41 AM
Author: The Goy World

If there were a viable third party it wouldn't be a waste of your vote to vote for them. The reason third parties feel like a waste is that they have almost zero popularity. It's their views that suck. Only one in a hundred people actually like them. But you want to feel special so you can rank Lander number one but Zohan two so you can lose on the first ballot but you're voting a second time to block Cuomo? How about you grow the fuck up and vote your conscience and too bad so sad your candidate woefully unpopular and it's on you to decide whether to throw your vote award or not. Third partymos cannot accept that no one wants them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048456)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:47 AM
Author: "'''""""'"'

that AVP "whoever wins, we lose" movie poster needs to be turned into marble and put on the national mall imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048467)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:51 AM
Author: .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,...,,..,.,., ( )


CR. A bunch of NYC fags elected a musbro terrorist, but that's not the fault of CV, it's because of NYC fags. The mechanism itself is fine.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048475)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:59 AM
Author: your ex is happier without you



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048504)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 11:00 AM
Author: mad niggerish

voting for two choices is the only kind of voting that actually makes any coherent sense

not flame. spend like 10 minutes thinking about it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048508)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:45 AM
Author: blow off some steam

yeah it’s very reddity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048461)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:50 AM
Author: ;..........,,,...,,.;.,,...,,,;.;.


Hey, Vsauce! Michael here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048470)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:52 AM
Author: mad niggerish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048477)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 11:01 AM
Author: The Goy World



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048513)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 11:51 AM
Author: blow off some steam



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048640)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:47 AM
Author: Ass Sunstein

*voting is dumb and terrible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048466)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 2:48 PM
Author: Dunedain cowboy (πŸΎπŸ‘£)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49049111)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:50 AM
Author: ..,,....,,.,..,,..,,...,...,,....,...,


Reddit loves it so yeah

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048469)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: mad niggerish

democracy sucks, but at the very least you have to give normgroids a maximum of 2 candidates, or a yes/no choice on something

it's just absurd to think that some normgroid ape is "rationally" doing a "ranked choice" of 5 different people lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048482)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:58 AM
Author: The Goy World

What it is is it's voting twice. You're voting for someone you know isn't going to win but you're saying wait wait, I deserve a second chance here. I knew my buddy was only going to get ten votes. But it was REALLY heckin important that I express my voice. Anyway back in reality I'd rather have this guy than the other guy.

It's so needy to give libs two votes but they must have their do-over Mulligan vote after they've got their super important feelings off their chest.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048501)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:55 AM
Author: disco fries (his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage)

It seems to me that ranked voting will go away naturally with time. How far off are we from the candidate who gets all of his die hard supporters to only vote for him and refuse to rank vote other candidates? At that point the strongest coalition will win and ranked voting will die.

Alternatively, it will never die because voters are cucky and don’t know what they want.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048484)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 10:57 AM
Author: .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,...,,..,.,., ( )


? If somebody has strong enough support that people ranking only him makes a difference, then that's no different between him having a lot of 1's and then those ballots have 2-5's that will never matter anyway. What IRV prevents is a third party vanity faggot from siphoning 10% of the vote from the candidate closer to them. Some of those might vote for only their guy anyway, but that's no different than throwing the vote away in a FPTP system.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048494)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 11:00 AM
Author: Ass Sunstein

I don't like ranked choice voting because suppose someone ranks 8 no-chance faggot third party candidates, then the Dem 9th and the Republican 10th. Their 9th place choice is going to count just as much as a normal person's 1st place choice.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048507)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 11:01 AM
Author: The Goy World

Ding ding ding we have a winner

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048516)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 11:00 AM
Author: ''"'"''"''''"""'''

cons hate it because it optimizes for voter preference while cons prefer to impose leaders against the will of the electorate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048510)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Juan Eighty

TITCR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048903)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 1:58 PM
Author: The Goy World

Yeah if anyone chooses their next leader by secret cabal and then tries to get the general public to ratify the elite's choice at the last minute, it's the Republicans πŸ€”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49049003)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 2:49 PM
Author: ''"'"''"''''"""'''

At least Kamala got over 50% of the vote for VP. Trump’s never won 50% ever in any election he’s run in

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49049114)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 2:53 PM
Author: The Goy World

This is truly the greatest argument I have ever heard about anything ever. Kamala 50% of the vote as vice president. I have to write that one down. In my book of jokes. Thank you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49049128)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 3:43 PM
Author: ''"'"''"''''"""'''

Biden also won a majority of the vote twice as VP and once as POTUS. Obama also did it twice. Trump has never won a majority in any election he’s ever run in.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49049281)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 8:07 AM
Author: .,.,.....,.,.;,.,,,:,.,.,::,...,:,..;,..,


no one cares how CA, NYC and Chicago vote you stupid faggot. we have the electoral college for a fucking reason.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49050873)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,...,:,...:..:.,:.::,.




(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49050975)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 11:18 AM
Author: The Goy World

Trump will never be President now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49051178)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 2:08 PM
Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,..,


TI, OC, TCR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49049024)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 4:08 PM
Author: your ex is happier without you



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49049435)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 11:00 AM
Author: your ex is happier without you

i live in a state with ranked choice voting and where decent third party/independent candidates occasionally run for office. its 180. fuck off.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048511)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 11:03 AM
Author: The Goy World

So just vote for the third party then? Why do you deserve some kind of mulligan do over if the third party doesn't win? Why do you get to vote twice? Just vote once faggot. You don't deserve multiple shots on goal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048523)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 11:04 AM
Author: ..,,....,,.,..,,..,,...,...,,....,...,




(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49048527)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 2:46 AM
Author: massive ordnance penetrator (gunneratttt)

wdym "why do you deserve?" as if theres some moral absolutisn to organizing political parties. why does any "deserve" a vote in the primaries, that wasn't alwats a thing either?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49050703)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 2:42 AM
Author: massive ordnance penetrator (gunneratttt)

which is exactly what happened in nyc.

in deep blue monoparty states you will only ever get the establishment neoliberal without something like this. why are some people maf that a populist is gonna be mayor of ny over another fucking bloomberg type?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49050697)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 11:20 AM
Author: The Goy World

I literally don't care about the mayor of NYC I just hate ranked voting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49051183)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 11:25 AM
Author: massive ordnance penetrator (gunneratttt)

you've mentioned nyc multiple times itt and the thread is topical because of nyc.

"grrr ranked choice voting grrr nyc mayor"

"but it resulted in a non-establishment candidate winning an election in a monoparty city"

"idc about nyc (except for my other poasts itt mentioning nyc heehee)"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49051194)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 2:13 PM
Author: Gorgeous Mamdani

elections should only have one candidate. avoids all the fighting and nastiness, which ultimately hurts are country. countries that do that have it right imo. everyone can still vote, its still democratic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49049031)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 3:48 PM
Author: JunkoEnoshima

A round robin playoff is better than single elimination because you get a total ranking of competitors instead of letting a bad one slip through by the luck of the draw. So by your own admission ranked choice voting is better than plurality voting.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49049309)



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Date: June 25th, 2025 4:07 PM
Author: The Goy World

right that's why the final 4 teams in every sport each play each other once and are awarded points for winning and the team with the highest points total is crowned champion.

Like how do we really know that the Knicks were not the best team in the NBA? They didn't even get to play the Thunder and the Timberwolves.

Wow! You're so smart!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49049433)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 8:09 AM
Author: VoteRepublican (A true Chad!! where's your gf/wifew?)

its abusable right as in u dont give yer true rank preferences if u have some infos

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49050874)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 9:22 AM
Author: manic pixie dream litigator

cr it benefits people who vote tactically and dishonestly, as compared to credulous high-trust people who earnestly rank their preferences. not a good system! would work great if the electorate were entirely made up of this second group but well haha

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49050939)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 10:05 AM
Author: mad niggerish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49050997)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 11:07 AM
Author: LathamTouchedMe

It does a far better job of picking the candidate who reflects the positions of the median voter. It should be done without a primary. All the candidates in one race like Alaska. If we had it in congress you wouldn’t get all these nutter fringe reps in deep red and deep blue districts. They win a primary with like 500 total voters and cruise in the general election even if they’re not reflective of what the average voter in that district wants.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49051158)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 11:16 AM
Author: manic pixie dream litigator

It resulted in the most left-wing candidate winning literally 2 days ago. This is exactly the opposite of reality

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49051174)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 11:21 AM
Author: LathamTouchedMe

Ranked choice didn’t figure at all. He won without it. And I said it should be implemented with all candidates in a general election. Primaries are the real problem.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49051184)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 11:21 AM
Author: The Goy World



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49051186)



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Date: June 26th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: mad niggerish

the big brain counter to this is that avoiding what "The Average Voter" wants is actually A Good Thing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5743084&forum_id=2#49051204)