[EM] Re: IRV letter

[Eric Gorr]

At 11:02 AM -0400 4/26/04, wclark at xoom.org wrote:
>  > At 6:16 PM +0930 4/26/04, Chris Benham wrote:
>
>Eric Gorr wrote:
>
>>  That IRV can and will fail to select the Condorcet Winner in a
>>  significant number of elections, is again sufficient for me to oppose
>>  IRV. I simply do not want to take the risk that the most preferred
>>  candidate (as defined by the Condorcet Criterion) would not be
>>  selected.
>
>Chris Benham's point was that the CW is more likely to lose under
>Plurality than under IRV.  Therefore you either need to refute his point,
>or you need to support IRV over Plurality.

I don't consider the likelihood of the failure to be relevant with 
respect to IRV.