[Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting

[James Gilmour]

Abd ul-Rahman Lomax > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 5:35 AM
> >As I said in the previous message, the origins of IRV are in the Exhaustive Ballot,
> >and in the Exhaustive Ballot there is no possibility of looking "at the entire ballot".
> 
> Can you provide a source for the claim that "the origins of IRV are 
> in the Exhaustive Ballot"?

No. None of the sources that are readily to hand gives any dates when the Alternative Vote (the much older UK name for IRV) was
first seen as an administrative improvement for the Second Ballot and the Exhaustive Ballot.

James Gilmour

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