The French need IRV?

[Dave Ketchum]

I am not replying where I found this, for I believe my thoughts are not 
welcome there.  HOWEVER:

Seems to me this is A STRONG ARGUMENT FOR THE FRENCH TO GO BACK IN THEIR 
HISTORY AND LEARN FROM CONDORCET!
      IRV tries to imitate plurality with runoffs.
      They DID plurality with runoffs.
      They AIN'T happy.
      Time to try something else.

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 07:29:35 -0700 (PDT) amyconn at socrates.berkeley.edu 
wrote, with subject and addressee
      [instantrunoff] The French need IRV:

> Hi IRVers,
> 	The French presidential election that just happened
> is a good case for IRV instead of 2-round runoffs.  They
> had 15 candidates in the race and an extreme right candidate
> made it in the top 2 to advance to the final round.  Apparantly
> the left split their vote between 3 or so candidates.  We should
> send letters to French newspapers and to U.S. national
> papers to say that they need IRV too.  Could the CVD
> release a statement?  I'm leaving the web address for the New
> York Times article about it.
> 
> 			Cheers,
> 			Amy
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/international/europe/22FRAN.html

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