[EM] To Bill Lewis Clark re: stepping-stone

[Forest Simmons]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Dave Ketchum wrote:

>
> IRV is not as similar to runoff as some claim - at runoff time I know the
> result of the original vote; with IRV I must do all of my ranking at one time.
>

For sincere voters, i.e. voters bound and determined to vote their
favorite among the uneliminated candidates at every stage no matter the
consequences ... for these dyed-in-the-wool sincere voters the two methods
are essentially equivalent, except for events that might change opinions
about favorites between trips to the polls.