[EM] Posting #2: intro, a plea, LWV, organizing v. IRV, terms & taxonomy

[LAYTON Craig]

>ITEM 5:  I agree that there are better terms than 'plurality' to
>describe the vote-for-one (or lone-mark) system.  Even worse are the
>list of non-descript terms used in place of IRV/STV, such as
>"alternative vote", "preferential voting", "choice voting", et al.  For
>all I know these terms were adopted as a way to use up the available
>acronyms & confuse the public (Alternative Vote to confuse IRV with
>Approval Voting, Choice Voting to confuse STV with cumulative voting,
>etc.)
>
>Approval voting, cumulative voting, and instant runoff are pretty
>widely-known terms, though, so I can't see re-inventing those.

As I understand it, IRV is a relatively new term, and is still almost
unheard of outside the US.  I was actually critisised in an essay I
submitted for using it.  I guess STV (or Hare) is the traditional term, but
it is now more commonly associated with PR (Hare-Clark).