[EM] Re: IRV Letter

[Eric Gorr]

At 4:13 PM -0400 4/23/04, Jeffrey O'Neill wrote:
>Mike,
>
>I'm mostly a lurker on this list, but I'd like to respond to your letter.
>
>(1) IRV is better than plurality.
>I'm assuming that you and most everyone on this list agrees with this.

I believe you are incorrect.

Examples have previously been given which demonstrates IRV inability 
to perform better then Plurality. In these cases, IRV has failed to 
select the Condorcet Winner while Plurality did select the Condorcet 
Winner.

While the flaws of IRV and Plurality are different, those flaws do 
not allow me to claim that either is better then the other.