I eagerly await a study of all three binary matchups: Peltola-Begich, Begich-Palin, and Palin-Peltola.
We already know the result of the last matchup: Peltola is preferred to Palin.
But I have a sneaky suspicion from your "Bruce Cain style hot-dog stands on the beach"* picture, that Begich is preferred to both of the others which means he is the condorcet choice of the electorate.
If we processed ballots such that the winner was always the condorcet winner then every voter is incentivized to be honest about their rank ordering. As it is, we are back to gamesmanship and each voter has to consider how other voters will vote.
*Bruce Cain was a poly sci prof at Caltech in the 80's, and he is now at Stanford. He was an early pioneer of using computer methods to gerrymander (as a consultant to the dem party). He loved modelling candidates as hot dog carts on a long narrow beach.
I eagerly await a study of all three binary matchups: Peltola-Begich, Begich-Palin, and Palin-Peltola.
We already know the result of the last matchup: Peltola is preferred to Palin.
But I have a sneaky suspicion from your "Bruce Cain style hot-dog stands on the beach"* picture, that Begich is preferred to both of the others which means he is the condorcet choice of the electorate.
If we processed ballots such that the winner was always the condorcet winner then every voter is incentivized to be honest about their rank ordering. As it is, we are back to gamesmanship and each voter has to consider how other voters will vote.
*Bruce Cain was a poly sci prof at Caltech in the 80's, and he is now at Stanford. He was an early pioneer of using computer methods to gerrymander (as a consultant to the dem party). He loved modelling candidates as hot dog carts on a long narrow beach.