Larry Summers forwards email discussing ranked-choice voting effects

From: Larry Summers Sent: 9/12/2018 3:01:20 AM To: jeevacation@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: 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. From: LHS Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 10:23 PM To: Maskin, Eric <n Ce: (nso fc rr Subject: Re: This morning Are there empirical studies on turnout. Sent from my iPhone Please direct all scheduling inquiries to my office | i _ 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 | 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