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		sova on Nov 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for d... Arrow got a Nobel prize for showing that ranked ballots are bad, mainly for the reason that when a candidate is dropped the results can change. The absolute best winner is not chosen consistently. Score Voting is the superset of all voting methods. Our Union deserves the best.

simonbarker87 on Nov 8, 2020 [–]

Arrow said “Most systems are not going to work badly all of the time. All I proved is that all can work badly at times.”

I think we’ve proved that FPTP works badly a lot of the time, time to try something else

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