[EM] Approval-enhanced IRV (take 2)

[Toby Pereira]

 Whether it's obstinacy or not, it was because Chris criticised the idea of a STAR "kludge" before presenting an IRV "kludge" less than two hours later.
In any case, as I suggested with your own STAR improvement previously, I'm not sure the best improvement from a particular method is to first determine the winner of the original method and then devise some add-on.
Toby



    On Thursday, 24 August 2023 at 14:56:20 BST, Forest Simmons <forest.simmons21 at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 

On Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 12:29 AM Toby Pereira <tdp201b at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

 But of course, as with STAR, any complex add-on to the method is unlikely to ever be adopted, regardless of how much better it is in theory...

When an improvement like this one is suggested along with examples of the problem it fixes and an explanation of why those examples were not just lucky flukes ... why am I always surprised at the resistance to any thought about the possibility of change?
There has to be a better explanation than pure obstinacy ... right?
fws 



 
 
      
  
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