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Regarding the section of “Other methods“

May I please receive the green light to fix the first point there, considering that it refers to ranked voting as such an other method, despite the whole article being about ranked voting in the first place, while it's description is also incoherent and seems to mix things up with elements of yet another voting method?

For now I am thinking that the point there was meant to be about score voting instead. Wulfstrex (talk) 08:20, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Slovenia?

@Keraleais: Might it be worth a mention in this article that Slovenia used ranked choice voting for some offices for a certain period, with references, of course? It would be best if a reference could be found with a plausible discussion of why it was changed? Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 23:30, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, you're right. To my knowledge, the ranked system was used to elect the two minority MPs from 2000 to 2018, until it was replaced by the amendment known as ZVDZ-D, in the 2022 general election First Past the Post was already used. The reason for change was simplification, the amendments were proposed by the two minority MPs. I'll update with reference to RTVSLO (national broadcaster - in slovene) Keraleais (talk) 14:22, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Alternate names for IRV

The article mentions that Instant-Runoff Voting is sometimes called the "Alternative Vote" or "Ranked-Choice Voting", however it's obvious to anyone who knows that other voting systems exist that those terms can't really refer to Instant-Runoff Voting specifically.

I've deleted those alternate terms for now. I do think that they should be mentioned in some way, but that would require a sourced explanation of who uses the terms and when. --Brilliand (talk) 14:17, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The source used cannot be FairVote, since they're the advocacy group that created this confusion of terms in the first place, so they are a primary source. --Brilliand (talk) 14:21, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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