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Andres Salomon

I boosted this last night, but I'm doing it again because it was so interesting (albeit long): fosstodon.org/@tcely/110705153

Click through to start the video at 1:13:00 or so (to skip right to the RCV problems).

I'm now a fan of . The part where Alameda County screwed up their counts and actually seated the wrong candidate, discovering their fuck up a month later is just.. wow.

FosstodonChris Ely (@tcely@fosstodon.org)RCV/IRV poses a serious risk to election security by introducing a requirement for a centralized single point of failure. The current ability to have distributed counting and checks and balances at all of the different physical locations makes it much harder to attack the counting of elections in a way that affects the outcome. Changing the election system to remove these safeguards is not a smart thing to do! https://www.youtube.com/live/O-dzK3YIAf8?t=4380 #ApprovalVoting #STARVoting
Jul 13, 2023, 18:45 · · · Elk · 2 · 4
Doug

@Andres4NY Good to see discussion about this, but it’s just not true that there’s anything inherent in #RankedChoiceVoting that requires a single point of failure or that causes delays in counting votes. Jurisdictions have been holding back second- and third- (etc.) place votes just to make things appear simpler. But there is a limited number of permutations of ballots in any #RCV election, and computers are perfectly capable of recording and reporting on each.

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