[EM] Learning from IRV's success

[Jameson Quinn]

2011/7/8 Andy Jennings <elections at jenningsstory.com>

> 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.
>

If "most likely to be independently reinvented" is the criterion, Borda wins
by a country mile. Bucklin is also compelling that way.

JQ
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