[EM] IRV in San Francisco

[Bart Ingles]

Eric Gorr wrote:

> At 7:44 AM -0800 11/12/04, Justin Sampson wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Eric Gorr wrote:
>>
>>  > Well, it will cause IRV to fail the Independence of Clones 
>> Criterion and
>>
>>>  thereby be subject to a spoiler effect again.
>>
>>
>> Doesn't IRV suffer from spoiler effects anyway?
> 
> 
> Depends.
> 
> The method itself passes the ICC, so spoilers cannot come from there.

Take a hypothetical IRV variant where candidates are eliminated at 
random, until a "majority" winner emerges.  Would this method still pass 
ICC?  If so, is the method spoiler free?

Bart