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From: "Maskin, Eric"
Date: S
eptember 11, 2018 at 10:24:21 PM EDT
Subject: RE: This morning
| believe there are, but don’t know how careful they are. | will try to get you references.
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To: Maskin, Eric <n Ce: (nso fc rr
Subject: Re: This morning Are there empirical studies on turnout.
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On Sep 11, 2018, at 10:20 PM, Maskin, Eric <> wrote:
Yes, we can expect more extremists to run under RCV. But also more centrists (e.g., Bloomberg). Since the centrists are closer to the median voter, they will defeat the extremists.
The evidence | have seen suggests that RCV increases turn-out. [But it’s important that voters be given the choice to rank as many or few candidates as they like, so that a voter always has the option of voting for a single candidate (in effect, he would be ranking all other candidates as tied for second). In practice, most voters choose to rank two or three candidates, but a significant fraction just rank one]
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