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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">It turns that real live
voters (including real live politicians) care a lot about the
later</font>-no-harm criterion, even if they don't know what it's
called.<br>
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--Bob Richard<br>
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On 7/7/2011 3:43 PM, Juho Laatu wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I actually already touched this question in another mail. And the argument was that (in two-party countries) IRV is not as risky risky from the two leading parties' point of view as methods that are more "compromise candidate oriented" (instead of being "first preference oriented"). I think that is one reason, but it is hard to estimate how important.
Juho
On 7.7.2011, at 23.56, Jameson Quinn wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Russ's message about simplicity is well-taken. But the most successful voting reform is IRV - which is far from being the simplest reform. Why has IRV been successful?
I want to leave this as an open question for others before I try to answer it myself. The one answer which wouldn't be useful would be "Because CVD (now FairVote) was looking for a single-winner version of STV". There's a bit of truth there, but it's a long way from the whole truth, and we want to find lessons we can learn from moving forward, not useless historical accidents.
JQ
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Californians for Electoral Reform
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