[Election-Methods] My Short Anti-IRV Screed - Median voting

[Stéphane Rouillon]

Mr Bolson,

this represents very well my comprehension.

IRV is better than FPTP and it is almost all about it. The more choices 
there is,
the greater the difference gets.

Since the transfer of information from counted ballots can be done in 
proportion of n!
datas (where n is the number of candidate), IRV becomes not summable when 
there is more
than 5 candidates (6! = 720 piles of ballots) for hand counting and around 
10 candidates
(10! = 3 628 800 datas) for computerized counting.

For ordering methods, any Condorcet method (ranked pair) seems more 
appropriate.

However, median voting (a rating method) tends to be my favorite 
single-winner method.
In median voting, any candidate scores the median of all the ratings 
received from the electors.
The highest median wins. Not getting rated on a ballot means the 
correspondant voter has no opinion about the particular candidate.
It is by far the most strategy resistive single-winner method. And any 
electoral system designer
will tell you we need to get sincere preference from the start if we want to 
be able to get the electorate will.

Can you get equivalent statistics to compare median voting with your other 
methods?

Yours,
Stéphane Rouillon

>From: Brian Olson <bql at bolson.org>
>To: Election Methods Mailing List <election-methods at electorama.com>
>Subject: [Election-Methods] My Short Anti-IRV Screed
>Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 01:49:14 -0400
>
>Hopefully this can be a resource in the battle against mediocre  election 
>methods.
>
>http://bolson.org/voting/irv/
>
>
>The short short version is:
>IRV gets worse results on average in simulation
>IRV has chaotic nonlinearities and can pick the wrong answer
>IRV doesn't scale up
>pro-IRV FUD is lies
>
>
>On the other hand, maybe I've spent too much time in my own little  world 
>and this doesn't make sense to anyone else. Feedback, anyone?
>
>
>Brian Olson
>http://bolson.org/
>
>
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