[EM] IRV3/AV3

[Kathy Dopp]

> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:59:48 -0700
> From: Andy Jennings <elections at jenningsstory.com>
>
> My strongest feeling about your recently proposed system is that the
> "three" is so arbitrary.
>

I believe David is responding to the fact that most of today's US
voting machines would only allow three candidates to be ranked by
voters, so that most IRV implementations in the US only allow three
candidates to be ranked.  Even if all candidates could be ranked by
voters, I would only support using IRV methods of counting after all
but two (2) candidates were eliminated using Approval Voting.
Otherwise the vagaries of IRV can pop up.

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