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From: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] Sent: 9/12/2018 6:15:20 PM To: Larry Summers Subject: Re: This morning https://www.cato-unbound.org/2016/12/13/jason-mcdaniel/ranked-choice-voting-likely-means-lower-turnout- more-errors difficult to judge one way or the other. turnout, does not reflect ethnicity.? stable does not mean same. . looking at the argumnents on both sides , I would have to conclude in your words a big nothingburger On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 5:01 AM, Larry Summers < > wrote: More than u may want to know Sent from my iPhone Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office at: Follow me on twitter glhsummers 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 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 glhsummers www.larrysummers.com HOUSE OVERSIGHT 026508 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] 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 h […]