Election Reform (fwd)

[Rob Trainor]

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DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> There are at least 3 major things going on with multiple choice elections ----
> 
> Scale Votes      +100 percent to -100 percent for each choice --- or my
> suggested short version of YES (above zero)/NO (below zero).
> 
> Head to Head Votes (Condorcet's major observation/discovery)
> 
> Place Votes (for ranked votes using the Scale Votes or simple Number Voting
> -- 1, 2, etc.)
> 
> Each of the three produces a table.
> 
> IRV ignores the existance of Scale Votes and Head to Head and uses only the
> first place votes part of a Place Votes table for eliminations -- and thus
> dangerously omits major election information.
> 
> See my standard Hitler- Stalin- Washington anti-IRV example --- i.e. 2
> extremists (X) and a divided moderate middle (M).
> 
> Folks can do probability math on how often there will be 1 or 2 extremists in
> the top 2 positions when there are 3 candidates remaining if IRV is being
> used.
> 
> Thus with 3 choices remaining if IRV is being used ---
> M or X
> M or X
> M or X
> 
> It only takes 1 bad result for really rotten things to happen -- such as
> getting Hitler into power in Germany in Jan. 1933 (if IRV was being used to
> elect national chief executive officers in real public elections).
> 
> I am aware that Hitler was appointed (due to the fatal machinations of the
> 1932-1933 Germany leadership) but the election connection is possible.