[EM] The tree is known by its fruits.

[Richard Lung]

The tree is known by its fruits.

So, election methods cannot be perfect. Whoever said they could? This 
superficial conclusion has caused immense mischief to the improvement of 
election methods. The Plant report eagerly seized on it, to justify 
digging their heels in, or dumping, half a dozen dud voting systems on 
the British public. New Zealandtook their cue from Plant, in their Royal 
Commission on election systems. And now Canadais blithely following.

Imperfection is in the voters knowledge of who to elect. They must act 
on imperfect information. And their choices must be probabilities. An 
election is a statistical summation with margins of error. Election 
method is improved by further marginalising the errors. Imperfection is 
not a conclusion about election methods, it is a premise, on which they 
are founded.


-- 
Richard Lung.
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