IRV inconsistency

[Forest Simmons]

Thanks for a great classic example.

On Thu, 17 May 2001 DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:

> Mr. Simmons wrote-
> 
> I recently attended a meeting of FAVOR, an Oregon group in their final
> stages of putting an IRV initiative on the ballot.
> ---
> D- Publicize my Hitler-Stalin- Washington example to scare the voters / 
> opinion makers bigtime against IRV.
> 
> 34 HWS
> 33 SWH
> 16 WHS
> 16 WSH
> 99
> 
> With IRV, W loses. H beats S 50-49
> 
> W beats H 65-34
> W beats S 66-33
> 
> How often will the final 2 choices be extremists if IRV is being used (with 
> the winner claiming some sort of *majority* *mandate* for his/her extremism) 
> ???
> 
>