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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I defer to Walabio's point about "Fair Votes" as I
know nothing about US politics but I strongly suspect that they are currently
getting a lot of support from across the Atlantic. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You may have heard that in May the UK will have a
referendum on introducing IRV (we call it AV, as you probably know), this
being one of the trading-chips in the current Conservative/Liberal-Democrat
coalition agreement. Since the election last year the IRV piece in
Wikipedia seems, to me at least, to have been revised extensively in
favour. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For example, the assertion that IRV eliminates the
need for tactical voting was given a lot of prominence in the intro the last
time I looked; oddly enough this claim was being made by prominent proponents in
the press over here at the same time. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Looking the piece up again when I saw your post I
notice it has been re-written again taking out the laudatory intro. Perhaps, now
the campaign for the referendum is under way, the No faction will start revising
the piece in the opposite direction. They almost certainly have the resources to
do extensive "astro-turfing" as their support comes mostly from the super-rich
fan-base of the Conservative Party.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(PS. I'd be interested in links to good research
contesting the claimthat AV makes tactical voting redundant - although
I will vote Yes, I think the false claims being made by the Yes camp are
dangerous and counterproductive).</FONT></DIV>
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