[EM] IRV3/AV3

[Andy Jennings]

David,

My strongest feeling about your recently proposed system is that the
"three" is so arbitrary.

What if there are eight candidates running, and I really like five of them?
 Then approving three might not be enough.  I know you said that real
elections only seem to have four strong candidates, but the current
republican primary seems to have at least seven totally legitimate
candidates in the race.  Both 2008 primaries were the same way.  Sure, the
press is constantly trying to whittle it down to about four.  But why
should we let the press do the whittling?  Shouldn't that be done by the
voting system in some way?  Should we use a different system for these
larger elections?

If there are only three candidates running, then the AV step does nothing.
 If there are four candidates running, then the AV step is really
anti-plurality.

And as Kathy pointed out, you'd still better tell people that it's not safe
to put their favorite first.

~ Andy
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