- It forces people to vote strategically according to who they believe has a chance to win instead of accurately describing their preferences.
- They can only express their opinion about one candidate, not all of them.
- The spoiler effect - more candidates for one side (on a given axis) increases the chance of a candidate on the other side winning.
I really encourage you to read all of those pages and play with the explorable explanations.
Dumb people are either able to understand this or generally have lower tendencies to engage in self-education so they don't know about these issues.
And, changing this fundamentally requires convincing dumb people because last time I checked there was not a single country where votes were weighted by intelligence.
> Since the dumb people end up being too dumb to participate
Again, this is incredibly wrong, everybody's vote counts the same.
- https://rangevoting.org/
- https://rangevoting.org/BayRegsFig.html
- http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
- https://ncase.me/ballot/
TL;DR
- It forces people to vote strategically according to who they believe has a chance to win instead of accurately describing their preferences.
- They can only express their opinion about one candidate, not all of them.
- The spoiler effect - more candidates for one side (on a given axis) increases the chance of a candidate on the other side winning.
I really encourage you to read all of those pages and play with the explorable explanations.
Dumb people are either able to understand this or generally have lower tendencies to engage in self-education so they don't know about these issues.
And, changing this fundamentally requires convincing dumb people because last time I checked there was not a single country where votes were weighted by intelligence.
> Since the dumb people end up being too dumb to participate
Again, this is incredibly wrong, everybody's vote counts the same.