[EM] how strong is support for IRV on this mailing list?

[Jameson Quinn]

2011/10/31 robert bristow-johnson <rbj at audioimagination.com>

>  even Rob Ritchie cannot continue to claim that IRV worked just fine, or
> better than all other alternatives, in that case.


Richie has claimed to me that

1) Even if Approval had elected the Democrat in Burlington, it would have
resulted in Approval being repealed, because the Democrat was a poor
candidate who deserved to lose and had a minority of strong supporters.
2) Approval would have elected the Republican in Burlington. (This is to me
not implausible; it could result from a chicken-dilemma situation, and the
numbers in Burlington were close enough that it wouldn't take too much for
this to happen).
2a) That would have resulted in Approval being repealed.

Of course, if you combine these hypotheticals with what actually happened,
it appears that Richie thinks that repeal of reform was inevitable after a
contentious election like Burlington. Which could be true, but seems to me
to be remarkably convenient to the pro-IRV stance.

Jameson
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