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From: Larry Summers Sent: 9/12/2018 3:01:20 AM To: jeeyacation@gmail.com Subject: Fwd: This morning Importance: High More than u may want to know Sent from my iPhone Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: Follow me on twitter @lhsummers www.larrysummers.com Begin forwarded message: From: "Maskin, Eric" Date: September 11, 2018 at 10:24:21 PM EDT To: LHS Subject: RE: This morning I believe there are, but don't know how careful they are. I will try to get you references. From: LHS < Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 10:23 PM To: Maskin, Eric <11 Cc: lhsoffice Subject: Re: This morning Are there empirical studies on turnout. Sent from my iPhone Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: Follow me on twitter @lhsummers www.larrysummers.com 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 I 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] HOUSE OVERSIGHT 026321 In fact the increase in the diversity of candidates under RCV is related to turn-out. If RCV had been used in 2016, Bernie Sanders could have run as an independent in the general election without fear of guaranteeing a Trump victory. Many of the Bernie supporters who stayed home on election day might then have voted---and presumably would have ranked Clinton second. This would have given her a victory over Trump in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania (and possibly elsewhere). Eric From: LHS ____________ […]