The Allure of IRV

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

Yes, because IRV has been pushed everywhere as the rank-count,
there's little hope of getting any other rank-count accepted,
except maybe in a city where the IRV promoters haven't been at work.

That's why Approval is a better public proposal. It can be pointed
out that IRV is only one of many rank-counts, and one of the worst;
and that Approval is a simple, obvious improvement on Plurality, and
that there's only one way to count Approval votes: Add them up.
Paul Hager's Approval discussion makes the essential points about
the ease of changing from Plurality to Approval.

And when IRV's violations of Monotonicity and Participation are
described, and the IRV majority myth debunked, it seems to me that
IRV won't have a chance. Of course it isn't necessary to name those
critera. It's only necessary to tell of the absurd things that
IRV will do.

IRV can't win where it's opposed with
information about its problems. It won in SF only because no one
was sharing information about it there.

So IRV should be easy to defeat, and, instead of getting into the
debate of one rank-count vs another, Approval is the proposal that
should be offered as a replacement for IRV.

Mike Ossipoff


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