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Honestly I don't know if I buy this argument. The act of voting is just as easy, does anyone really care how the tally is calculated?

With condorcet I think you can also visualize it nicely by playing a Head to Head thing and show ok A vs B, B wins. Ok B vs C, B wins, etc.



> does anyone really care how the tally is calculated?

If the 2020 US election tabulation process is any indication, yes.


Well, I'm not really seeing people complain about the math itself, but instead more about fraud in the votes themselves, or machines/people cheating when tallying.

Just to be clear, the difference would be something like having to say B won because he was the most common second choice and beat every other candidates in a one on one. Versus saying B won because it had the most first choices, yet did not have a majority of first choices.

I think it's easy enough to understand that while someone had more first choices, they didn't have a majority first choices and since someone else had more second choices they took the win.


Those people will be angry and say the same things no matter what is done




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