[EM] IRV vs RCV??? responding to the last post,

[robert bristow-johnson]

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Subject: Re: [EM] IRV vs RCV??? responding to the last post,

From: fdpk69p6uq at snkmail.com

Date: Fri, June 30, 2017 8:54 pm

To: election-methods at electorama.com

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> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Sennet Williams wrote:

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>> 1st of all, "RCV" is simply a RENAMING of IRV!

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> No it's not. There are *many* ranked-choice, preferential voting systems,

> and misusing the term to refer exclusively to IRV is dishonest and

> harmful.

 
and FairVote and Rob Richie do that. i've call him on it.
 
> Many of the other ranked-choice systems are much better, and

> you're intentionally misleading people into thinking that IRV has the same

> benefits that they do (or that there's only one type of reform, and the

> only options are to get behind it or not).

>
and FairVote also does that.


>> IRV/RCV is the ONLY election reform making progress in America, and it is

>> building faster and faster.

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>

>

> Hopefully this trend reverses, as more people do their research and realize

> that IRV is a sham "reform" that only perpetuates two-party domination.

>

> FairVote could do so much good if they threw their marketing weight behind

> a voting system that actually worked. :(
because if liberal cities with strong third parties adopt IRV and it screws up like it did in Burlington Vermont 2009, ranked-choice voting and that kind of election reform will, again, suffer in reputation.
FairVote would do so much MORE
good if they did not deliberately conflate IRV with RCV and represent that conflation to various governments and organizations regarding election reform.

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