Does IRV fail the Smith criterion?

DEMOREP1 at aol.com DEMOREP1 at aol.com
Wed Jan 3 23:18:22 PST 2001


Donald raves on about IRV.
I give Mr. Ossipoff a break.

The standard response to IRV fanatics should be the standard example--

H=  Hitler, S = Stalin, W = Washington

34 HWS
33 SWH
16 WHS
16 WSH

With IRV Washington loses. An extremist wins.

With Condorcet Washington beats both Hitler and Stalin head to head..

IRV fanatics, which Donald have become in the last few years, do not note the 
existance of the head to head matrix and are thus irrational and/or ignorant 
of simple math -- like saying the earth is the center of the universe (as in 
circa 1400) before the modern observations of the planets.



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