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You are here: Home / Democracy in America / Alaska Election Results Show Why Condorcet Is Obsolete

Alaska Election Results Show Why Condorcet Is Obsolete

September 23, 2022 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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Alaska Election Results Show Why Condorcet Is ObsoleteCondorcet advocates use the wrong standard for evaluating Ranked Choice Voting elections. This article by Steven Hill is published by Democracy SOS. Here is an excerpt:

Post-election commentary and kibbitzing over the Alaska election in which Democrat Mary Peltola beat Sarah Palin continues unabated. But increasingly it has run off the rails over attempts to discredit the election method used, Ranked Choice Voting.

The first wave of criticism came from some apoplectic MAGA Republicans, furious that their Mama Bear Palin had lost. Right-wing GOP Senator Tom Cotton tweeted “Ranked-choice voting is a scam to rig elections,” and one unhinged pundit said ranked choice voting “has the rank odor of Third World authoritarianism.” Palin herself called it a “new crazy, convoluted, confusing” system, while that expert judge of electoral fairness, Donald Trump, called it “ranked choice crap voting…a total rigged deal” (and Trump should know).

Now some advocates for different electoral systems, such as approval voting, range voting, STAR voting and more, are taking dim views of how ranked choice voting performed in Alaska. Some elections commentators measure the worth of all electoral systems by whether or not that system elects what is called “the Condorcet winner.”

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