<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Mike Ossipoff wrote:<BR>
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>Is that what happened in Australia? And don't say that IRV hasn't committed <BR>
>its failures in Australia. It wouldn't show up in the data that are recorded <BR>
>and published.<BR>
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What are you saying here Mike? That even though you can find none of IRV's failures in recorded and published data you nevertheless KNOW that they are there.<BR>
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You give the impression that your opposition to IRV has elements of quasi-religious belief about it- I don't need evidence, I know these things to be true without any need of evidence.<BR>
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>Anything worth doing is worth doing right. Doing something right the first <BR>
>time is better than doing it wrong, and then hoping to fix it later.<BR>
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Rejecting any option because it is not 100% of what you want is a usually a very poor strategy in any situation. Very rarely in life can we have everything that we want. We have to compromise. Some improvement, 50% of what we want is better than nothing. Any improvement is better than no change. <BR>
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David Gamble<BR>
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