[EM] More non-altruistic attacks on IRV usage.
Kristofer Munsterhjelm
km_elmet at lavabit.com
Fri Nov 25 01:50:59 PST 2011
David L Wetzell wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn at gmail.com
> <mailto:jameson.quinn at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> How? By people returning to lesser-evil voting, but possibly between
>> progressives and democrats? That's not a solution in my book.
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> The two major-party equilibrium would be centered around the de facto
> center.
But positioning yourself around the de facto center is dangerous in IRV.
You might get center-squeezed unless either you or your voters start
using strategic lesser-evil logic - the same sort of logic that IRV was
supposed to free you from by "being impervious to spoilers".
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