[EM] "IRV" in the news

[Jonathan Lundell]

At 8:07 AM -0700 7/27/06, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
>At 3:09 AM -0400 7/27/06, raphfrk at netscape.net wrote:
>>Btw, is the new law equivalent to the old run-off rules ?  Would there
>>be no 2nd election if the winner of  the first round got more than 40%
>>?  Maybe, they were just trying to keep the law consistant ?
>
>Yes, that appears to be the case. They've basically collapsed their
>existing runoff system into a single election.

I meant to add: and that's fine with me; I just wish they hadn't called it IRV.

But that's the problem with "IRV" as a name for single-winner STV: 
NC's method is "instant", and it's a "runoff", but that's not the 
central point of single-winner STV, just a side benefit.
-- 
/Jonathan Lundell.