Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > > To take a real-world recent example, on Tuesday we had a gubernatorial > primary election in California to choose party candidates for the > November general election. In the Democratic primary, there were half > a dozen candidates, but only two with a chance of winning, and > extensive polling leading up to the primary had them in a statistical > tie. That's not an uncommon situation, and the Condorcet strategy of > burying would have been trivial to implement. > > With IRV, I'd be interested in knowing what the strategy would be in > the above election. > > > The best voting strategy based on this information would be to vote sincerely. With only two competitive candidates, there is no "split vote" problem in IRV.
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