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Simulating alternate voting systems
Primer uses simulations to compare voting systems such as first-past-the-post, approval, ranked choice and others. It shows how each system behaves and can be manipulated, with links to further voting theory resources.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters link it to explain why plurality voting produces two-party systems and how ranked-choice voting suffers spoiler effects.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Primer
- Topic
- voting systems
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 10
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2026
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From the original HN conversations
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Let's see. Canada currently has 338 MPs and over 80% (!) of those (278) belong to one of two majority parties. So yes, in theory Canada has a multi party system. In practice this multi party system is severely damaged by the effects of the …
esarbe on Hacker News · 2020-12
In Apple’s longtime supplier accused of using forced labor in China> and then we promised to not game the system That's the key point. Unfortunately, all known voting systems can be gamed. Here's an interesting video that explains how they can be manipulated: [VIDEO]
awb on Hacker News · 2022-10
In Show HN: RankedVote – SurveyMonkey but focused on ranked-choice voting
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.
