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

[James Gilmour]

> Curt Siffert <siffert at museworld.com> writes:
> >Honestly, though, I don't believe the 3/49/48 scenario would ever
> >happen in a political election.  For a candidate to have gathered 
> >enough support to even compete in an election, he or she 
> would have to 
> >have a significant amount of first-place supporters.

James Green-Armytage replied: 
> Well, actually what I think is more unlikely about that 
> classic example is that anyone with only 3% of first choice 
> votes would be a totally unanimous choice for second choice. 
> In general, it seems unlikely for any candidate to be either 
> the first or second choice of every single voter. 

You can play with the figures all you like, but all you are doing is trying to avoid the real
question of the likely response of real voters in a real public election when the CW has VERY low
first-vote support.
James G.