[EM] IRV's "majority winner". What if we let the people choose?

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

The "majority winner" that IRVers so often boast of will often have another 
candidtate preferred to hir by a majority. Avoidably choosing someone in 
violation of voted majority wishes. A peculiar notion of a "majority 
winner".

But what if we let the people choose between IRV's winner and the CW when 
they differ. You know what will happen. The CW will win every time.

Once, in an Internet committee, we had to take  a vote on something, and 
some proposed Condorcet, and some proposed IRV. I pointed out that we could 
count the rankings by both methods, and then let the membership vote between 
the winners of the 2 methods. An obvious and reasonable suggestion. But an 
IRVer named Jim Lindsay objected and accused me of using Condorcet's 
standard, which, he claimed, made my proposal unfairly biased in favor of 
Condorcet.

So letting the public choose is Condorcet's standard? If so, then it's odd 
that Jim & other IRVers can try to justify disregarding Condorcet's 
standard.

Mike Ossipoff

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