[EM] IRV Failures

[Chris Benham]

Eric,

> So, to make it simple, is there a case where IRV has been used (in a 
> government election), with no doubt as to the integrity of the count, 
> but where there has been widespread belief that the winner was a poor 
> one? 

Speaking as someone who has lived in Australia all my life, I would 
reply: "as far as I've noticed, not really".
There would have been some where Condorcet-minded people might have 
demurred, but none such are in evidence in Australia; so there was 
definitely
"no widespread belief that the winner was a poor one" in the sense that 
anyone else winning would have been seen as legitimate.

Chris Benham