[Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting (Chris Benham)

[Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]

At 01:17 PM 6/22/2008, James Gilmour wrote:
>Kathy Dopp > Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 4:53 AM
> > I try not to waste time
> > on stupid ideas and I've already wasted over 6 weeks of this
> > year considering IRV which is an incredibly stupid voting
> > method at first glance after 15 minutes of study IMO.
>
>So what does this tell us about the many thousands of public 
>elections and civic organisation elections that have been conducted by
>the IRV voting system since it was introduced for public elections 
>around 100 years ago?

For starters, what is being proposed in the U.S. isn't that system. 
It wasn't called "instant runoff voting," and the rules are 
different. Smoke that!