[EM] Learning from IRV's success

[Andy Jennings]

>
> Also, I think IRV's seemingly intuitive nature has something to do with it.
> For those who *did* investigate more deeply, IRV seemed sensible, too:
> instead of holding a bunch of expensive runoffs, collect all the required
> information at once and then act as if there were runoffs. That fails to
> account for the dynamics between the rounds, but that's a subtle detail and
> might easily be missed.
>

I, too, must admit that IRV has a natural feeling to it.  I had a friend who
described to me a system he thought of "on his own" and he ended up
describing IRV.
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