[EM] IRV Failures

[Eric Gorr]

Markus Schulze wrote:

> Dear Eric,
> 
> you will never win this discussion.

Oh, I know.

> Even when IRV was being used and the election of
> candidate A caused some public outcry and even when
> you have enough data to prove that some other election
> method would have elected some other candidate B, IRV
> supporters will reject this example as irrelevant.
> They will argue that you cannot prove that the election
> of candidate B wouldn't have caused the same outcry.
> Or they will argue that you cannot prove that in the
> long run IRV causes more public outcry that a given
> other election method.

I agree, but it would still be interesting to see them actually reject 
the evidence some will declare does not exist and will never exist.



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