Flipping coins, pulling a playing card —WTF is happening to our democracy? This is insane.
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Replying to @REALmillerfinch @TVietor08
There is no form of voting that makes ties completely impossible, and in the event of a tie the ONLY fair thing to do if you can't split who actually wins is random chance
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It should be pseudo-random chance, IMO. Hash every candidate's name with the district number, and give the order of the hashes as the tiebreaker order for that district.
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If this order is known ahead of time before the election it could affect campaigning strategy for that district, which of course is the whole problem with pseudorandomness
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If you're making significant campaign decisions based on which districts you will or won't win in the event of an exact tie, I feel like your campaign/electoral process probably has bigger issues
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Replying to @stuartpb @arthur_affect and
Like, that's the kind of stat-solipsistic deluded certainty that leads to "nah, we can win Wisconsin and Michigan without ever having to go there"
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The point being that you want true randomness if you want to avoid any accusation of unfairness, which is why using a physical RNG at the time of the election (coin flip, deck of cards) really is the best method even if people make fun of it
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I joked about having an official RNG app for this purpose but yeah if such a thing existed it would come under constant attack by conspiracy theorists
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