eliminations methods like IRV

[Forest Simmons]

As DEMOREP demonstrates below, IRV fails to successfully implement its
implicit ideal of eliminating the worst candidates before the final choice
stage. 

And as I mentioned before, finding the worst is as hard as finding the
best, so only a recursive elimination strategy (which IRV is not) has any
chance of effectively implementing that ideal. 

I'll give the details of a feasible recursive elimination method in my
next posting on this subject. 

Forest

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:

> Mr. Simmons wrote in part-
> 
> Can anything be salvaged from IRV?  I think so: it's an ill wind indeed
> that blows no good at all.
> 
> One idea implicit in IRV is this:  Keep eliminating the worst candidates
> from the rankings until the best choice among the remaining candidates is
> obvious.
> 
> The idea is appealing. I like it, and I suppose it is part of the reason
> that IRV (which claims to implement it faithfully) has garnered so much
> support.
> ---
> D- Again ----
> 
> H = Hitler, S = Stalin, W = Washington, George
> 
> 34 HWS
> 33 SWH
> 16 WSH
> 16 WHS
> 99
> 
> With IRV, W loses.
> H beats S by 50 to 49.
> 
> IRV will aggrevate plurality extremists.
> 
> W happens to be a Condorcet Winner.
> 
> In a YES/NO vote, who is the most likely to get the highest YES majority ???
> 
>