Would you mind explaining more about what you mean regarding the recent Alaska election? The information I have found about it made it seem fairly reasonable and straightforward to me, but perhaps I am missing something.
> Two popular suspicions are now confirmed. Nick Begich was the Condorcet winner. Sarah Palin was a spoiler candidate - her presence caused Mary Peltola to be elected, by prematurely eliminating Nick Begich.
Here's another, that got down-voted to hell, because of the audience.
> If 2913 voters who supported Palin first and Begich second flipped their first and second preferences, they’d have gotten a more preferred result.
(i.e. they would have gotten Begich instead of Peltola, by having Palin eliminated first)
> Even worse, if instead 5825 of those same types of voters just decided not to vote, they’d have also gotten a better result. So merely participating in the election hurt them.
While I do prefer the winner it selected, it's not a great election method. Better than FPTP is a terribly low bar.
For 1, meh. Marking is the same and it is much closer to incentivizing honest reporting.
For 2, everyone advocating for Condorcet has some favorite cycle-breaker. Mostly it doesn't matter; it's a lot more rare than non-monotonicity in IRV.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/x9oupk/2022_alaska...
> Two popular suspicions are now confirmed. Nick Begich was the Condorcet winner. Sarah Palin was a spoiler candidate - her presence caused Mary Peltola to be elected, by prematurely eliminating Nick Begich.
Here's another, that got down-voted to hell, because of the audience.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ForwardPartyUSA/comments/xb119e/its...
> If 2913 voters who supported Palin first and Begich second flipped their first and second preferences, they’d have gotten a more preferred result.
(i.e. they would have gotten Begich instead of Peltola, by having Palin eliminated first)
> Even worse, if instead 5825 of those same types of voters just decided not to vote, they’d have also gotten a better result. So merely participating in the election hurt them.
While I do prefer the winner it selected, it's not a great election method. Better than FPTP is a terribly low bar.