[EM] IRV Failures

Bart Ingles bartman at netgate.net
Tue Mar 8 19:42:08 PST 2005


Eric Gorr wrote:
> Markus Schulze wrote:
>> Even when IRV was being used and the election of
>> candidate A caused some public outcry and even when
>> you have enough data to prove that some other election
>> method would have elected some other candidate B, IRV
>> supporters will reject this example as irrelevant.
>> They will argue that you cannot prove that the election
>> of candidate B wouldn't have caused the same outcry.
>> Or they will argue that you cannot prove that in the
>> long run IRV causes more public outcry that a given
>> other election method.
> 
> 
> I agree, but it would still be interesting to see them actually reject 
> the evidence some will declare does not exist and will never exist.

Been there.  Seen it.  It wasn't that interesting.



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