[EM] Definition of preferential voting

Steve Eppley seppley at alumni.caltech.edu
Sun Aug 22 13:54:00 PDT 2004


Hi,

Dave Ketchum wrote:
> Robert's likes repeated balloting much better, 
> but concedes that is not always practical. 
> 
> They offer IRV (by description, not by name) 
> as an example, and say nothing against other 
> preferential methods such as Condorcet.
-snip-

Yes.  They do point out problems with IRV. 
In particular, that it can easily defeat the 
best compromise.  It would be nice if someday
they discuss a better preference order method.

--Steve




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