[EM] British Colombia considering change to STV

[Kathy Dopp]

I don't think that IRV/STV is even worth wasting time discussing
unless you fully support the following:

1. treating voters' ballots inequitably by counting 2nd and 3rd
choices of only some voters, counting the 2nd and 3rd choices of even
fewer cvoters in a timely fashion when those candidates are still in
the running, and not counting the 2nd or 3rd choices of a large group
of voters whose 1st choice loses the election (I.e. unless you like
highly unfair methods for counting votes)

2. helping voting vendors sell an all-new round of costly voting
equipment and raising election costs,

3. eviscerating public transparency and accuracy of the electoral process,

4. turning the act of voting into a gambling game due to IRV/STV's
nonmonotonicity,

5. implementing a complex method that does *not* solve the spoiler
problem, and does *not* elect majority winners and is more likely to
elect extremist candidates.

Unless you support all the above features of IRV/STV then discussing
it or promoting it is a hopeless waste of time.

Why not discuss a different voting method that is fair, equitable,
simpler, monotonic, less costly, solves the spoiler problem, finds
majority winners, etc. instead?

Kathy