[EM] Analysis Finds Incorrect Use of Ranked-Choice Voting in San, Francisco

[Ralph Suter]

It's no more crap than your cranky knee-jerk comments, which are clearly 
based on your speculative (and therefore dubious) negative assumptions 
about the intent of the article's author and the people who conducted 
the university study. The article only briefly describes that study 
(which runs to 23 pages) and also refers to a separate study done by the 
news organization the author writes for (the Bay Citizen). In fact, an 
earlier article by the same author describing the Bay Citizen study 
sympathetically and at some length quotes two well-known long time 
supporters of RCV, Rob Richie and Steven Hill. A strong opponent of RCV, 
Terry Reilly, is also quoted, but at much less length. Both the 
university study (titled a "preliminary RCV analysis") and the earlier 
Bay Citizen article are posted on the web. You should read them before 
posting any more comments about them or defending your initial ones.

earlier Bay Citizen article:
http://www.baycitizen.org/sf-mayoral-race/story/how-ranked-choice-voting-silenced-voters/

University of San Francisco study:
http://www.baycitizen.org/documents/usf-rcv-ballot-analysis/
   OR
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/269123/usf-rcv-ballot-analysis.pdf

On 12/2/2011 7:12 PM, David L Wetzell wrote:

>   This is crap!