<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Greg wrote (Th.Nov.6):</DIV>
<DIV>Those documents make a good case. If you rule IRV/STV unconstitutional<BR>due to non-monotonicity, you have to be prepared to rule open<BR>primaries and top-two primaries unconstitutional as well.<BR><BR>Note also that other arguments by the "MN Voter's Alliance" would, if<BR>successful, would render *any* voting method that involves putting<BR>marks next to multiple candidates -- IRV, Bucklin, Approval,<BR>Condorcet, Range -- by its nature unconstitutional.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>That anti-IRV group explicitly say as much:</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>"Additional note:</STRONG> There are several other "non-traditional" voting methods <BR>currently being advocated around the country. Among these are Range Voting<BR> and Approval Voting. (See the NYU report linked above) While these schemes<BR> are better in some ways than IRV, they retain some of the same fatal flaws which</DIV>
<DIV> make IRV unconstitutional."</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.mnvoters.org/IRV.htm">http://www.mnvoters.org/IRV.htm</A></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Chris Benham<BR></DIV></div><br>
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