NYC Mayor/2021 Megathread

[Stuart98]

If Garcia > Adams and Adams > Wiley are both true, then we could well be looking at one of two non-monotonic scenarios in this election:

If Garcia > Wiley in the penultimate round, then a couple percentage points of Adams supporters dishonestly voting for Wiley instead of Adams could have caused an Adams victory (if Adams' final round margin over Wiley would have been greater than Garcia's margin over Wiley in the penultimate round).

If Wiley > Garcia in the penultimate round, then a couple percentage points of Wiley supporters dishonestly voting for Adams instead of Wiley could have caused an Adams defeat (if Garcia's final round margin over Adams would have been greater than Wiley's margin over Garcia in the penultimate round).

[Stuart98]

Maybe this will wake people up on why RCV is a garbage voting system. It only entrenches the elite of any area it is in.

At least there's a case for a runoff system. Winning a primary with 30% of the vote in a field of multiple candidates is hardly a mandate.

There's a case for a system that doesn't restrict you to only supporting a single candidate in an election, but that system doesn't have to involve a runoff, automatic or otherwise.

[Stuart98]

So .. when are we expecting results?