[EM] re HG Wells

[Richard Lung]

"I happen to agree with Wells’s assessment of the merits of STV, but I 
wouldn’t dare to claim that I know beyond doubt that it’s beyond a 
shadow of doubt the perfect way to vote — or that one exists."

Neither does Wells. It's like due process (or scientific law), something 
beyond reasonable doubt. Not to say what we have ample reason to believe 
is true, and ample reason to believe non-transferable voting is 
defective, is the more irresponsible.

Look at social choice theory with 70 years of skepticism and its vacuous 
verdicts that there is no perfect election system -- as if anyone 
thought there was.

Regardfs,

Richard Lung.