[EM] IRV vs Plurality

[robert bristow-johnson]

On Jan 10, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Jonathan Lundell wrote:

> This is a point that bears repeating, since it doesn't seem to sink  
> in. It's much to easy to casually assume that ballots cast under  
> one system (in this case IRV) can be recounted under some other  
> rule with the assumption that voters would have cast the same (or  
> at least equivalent) ballots under that other rule.

but i think that it is reasonable to "casually" assume that the  
ranked-order ballots marked for IRV would, for the most part, be the  
same if the election were to be decided by Condorcet rules.  that,  
plus the Freedom of Information laws, allows us to say what would  
have happened with Condorcet rules.  the tabulation rules are  
different, but the ballots are the same.

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