[EM] Canadian politician supports "a preferential ballot, or a ranked ballot"

[Jameson Quinn]

2013/1/18 Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet at lavabit.com>

> On 01/17/2013 06:07 PM, Richard Fobes wrote:
>
>  Soon enough, just as has happened in Aspen (CO) and Burlington (VT), the
>> weaknesses of IRV counting will get exposed. In the meantime, just
>> getting people to talk about, and think about, the possibility of better
>> ballots and better counting methods is a wonderful development.
>>
>
> I just hope that won't lead to a false confusion of IRV with ranked
> balloting itself and thus thoughts that ranked balloting can't work because
> IRV blows up spectacularly in an n-way race with n > 2.


I'd say it works until n>=2.5, but yes, you're right in general.

Jameson
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