[Election-Methods] IRV unconstitutional?

Stéphane Rouillon stephane.rouillon at sympatico.ca
Fri Dec 28 07:57:30 PST 2007


Warren Smith a écrit :
> Venzke:
> In my opinion you could find that a failure of virtually any criterion is
> unconstitutional. That's why I don't think this is a promising way to try
> to defeat methods we don't like. I think it's mostly dangerous.
> I say we had best not give the referees invitations to ban all our methods.
>
> --WDS replies:
> true.
>
> However, you have no choice but to enter this arena because an anti-IRV lawsuit
> has already been filed.
>   
If this is true, defendors should aim at showing that IRV flaws are smaller
than FPTP flaws, thus FPTP should be declared anti-constitutional if IRV is.



More information about the Election-Methods mailing list