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

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

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.