[Election-Methods] IRV hurts racial minorities?

[Warren Smith]

To reply to Gilmour
("if you are serious about representation of minorities, you start by
electing the representative assembly by a sound system of proportional
representation")

--that may be.  However, this web page was not addressing that
question.  It was addressing
the question: "which hurts/helps racial minorities: IRV or plurality
voting? with no third alternative
allowed")

To reply to Juho
("Eating ice cream causes drowning. There is plenty of evidence. Just
check the summertime and wintertime statistics and be convinced.
In this case one statistical IRV example seemed to justify the
conclusions.")

--The web page already addressed this issue.
http://rangevoting.org/IRVraceMinorities.html

Juho: "I also didn't see any proposed theory on why IRV would hurt (racial
or other) minorities. Is there one?"

--About 5 hypotheses have been proposed to me or by me about why.
However, the web page intentionally does not discuss why because that
would lengthen the page by a factor of about 5, plus I don't know why anyway.
It might be interesting to investigate why, but might be a lot of work.

Juho "How about a single-member  district based theory?"

--*Both* plurality and IRV involve single-member districts only.
Therefore, we know
that Juho's theory is not the explanation.




-- 
Warren D. Smith
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