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

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

On 01/18/2013 05:18 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
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> 2013/1/18 Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet at lavabit.com
> <mailto:km_elmet at lavabit.com>>
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>     On 01/17/2013 06:07 PM, Richard Fobes wrote:
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>         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.
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>     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.
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> I'd say it works until n>=2.5, but yes, you're right in general.

Yeah, I was thinking of n integer.