[EM] In defense of the Electoral College (was Re: Making a Bad

[Kathy Dopp]

Jonathan,

You got anything to say other than gibberish?

How about a real sentence or two on how exactly you want the US
government to count over 100 million IRV votes for president?

Kathy

>> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Jonathan Lundell <jlundell at pobox.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> I.e. IRV would necessitate that the federal government be responsible
>>>> for counting all the nation's ballots if IRV were used to elect the
>>>> President - so we can expect all IRV/STV proponents to oppose national
>>>> popular vote for president.
>>>
>>> You can expect it all you like, but you'd be wrong.
>>>
>>
>> Really?  So you support having the federal government count all the
>> ballots for all US citizens?  Exactly who and how do you imagine that
>> could be done?
>
> Think of it as a ranked choice: IRV > NPV > EC.
>
> That wasn't so hard, was it?
>