[EM] IRRV as best popular name for Condorcet voting

[RLSuter at aol.com]

I agree with Jan Kok's suggestion that IRRV  ("Instant Round Robin
Voting") be used as a popular name for Condorcet voting. I believe
this name works best in comparing it with IRV to people not familiar
with different voting methods, as follows:

Both IRV and IRRV would use identical kinds of ballots, with voters
ranking their candidate preferences from most preferred to least
preferred. The only difference between the two voting methods
is in how the ballots would be interpreted. With IRV, they would
be interprepreted in a way that would simulate a serious of runoff
elections. With IRRV, they would be interpreted in a way that
would simulate separate contests between each candidate and
each other candidate. From there, you could go into an
explanation of the advantages of using IRRV rather than IRV
to interpret ranked ballots.

I see no reason to include Condorcet in the name or to include
any sort of reference to Condorcet. It's true that people familiar
with voting methods are very used to the name Condorcet, but
such people are a very small fraction of the population, probably
a hundredth of one percent or something like that. Most people
have never heard of Condorcet and would find any reference
to that name totally unenlightening. An alternative would be the
name used by the authors of the March 2004 Scientific American
article, "True Majority Voting," but that is a rhetorically loaded
term that advocates of IRV would rightly object to for that reason
alone. It also isn't as descriptive as Instant Round Robin Voting.

The dictionary definition of "round robin," corresponds exactly
to the sense used in Instant Round Robin Voting. In Webster's
New World Dictionary (4th ed, 1999), "round robin" is defined
as "a contest or tournament, as in tennis, chess, etc., in which
every entrant is matched with every other one."

-Ralph Suter