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

[Stéphane Rouillon]

Kathy,

if you please could stop propagating false statement, your credibility index 
could
grow back again...

I'll give you a real sentence: no government has any need to centralize the 
count of millions of preferential ballot using IRV, it only needs to 
coordinate the job.

>From: "Kathy Dopp" <kathy.dopp at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: kathy.dopp at gmail.com
>To: "Jonathan Lundell" <jlundell at pobox.com>
>CC: election-methods at lists.electorama.com
>Subject: Re: [EM] In defense of the Electoral College (was Re: Making a Bad
>Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 20:49:21 -0700
>
>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?
> >
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