[EM] The AMS has switched from Ranked Pairs to Instant-Runoff Voting

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

On 2023-10-19 21:42, Markus Schulze wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote (10 March 2023):
> 
>  > So the story seems to be that tht elections committee
>  > replaced the Condorcet language with IRV language,
>  > made various other changes, and the whole thing got
>  > passed in one go. But this just pushes the question
>  > back to: why did the Elections Committee remove Ranked
>  > Pairs? The documents don't seem to answer this question.
> 
> The following explanation is now given:
> 
>  > We decided to switch because Condorcet can give you no
>  > result: nobody would win. Instant Runoff is preferred
>  > by most who use a ranked system. It's much easier to
>  > read the results with Instant Runoff.
> 
> https://www.ams.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Council-Minutes-February-1-2023-Redacted.pdf

This seems like a weird explanation. It's true that Condorcet isn't 
always decisive, but Ranked Pairs is. And is a Sankey style transfer 
diagram that much more easy to read than a Ranked Pairs pairwise 
preference order?

But it is what it is, I guess.

-km