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<p><font face="Comic Sans MS">That's grossly false. A ranking on a
ballot isn't a vote until it's counted.<br>
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Each time there's a round of counting in an IRV election, a
voter's top remaining choice on their ballot is counted. If a
voter's #1 choice remains, that is the voter's vote and is
counted. If that voter's #1 choice remains in every round of
counting, that voter's vote is counted in every round.<br>
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If, in an IRV round, a voter's #1 choice was eliminated, that
voter's vote for her/his #2 choice is counted. Calling that a
second vote for this voter but ignoring the second time the
other voter's #1 choice is counted is grossly a double standard.<br>
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Use facts. That's what our Supreme Court did when it ruled that
Minneapolis's Ranked Choice Voting system is constitutional.
That's what it did in 1915 when it ruled that Duluth's Bucklin
Voting system was unconstitutional.<br>
- Ken Bearman, Minneapolis MN<br>
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</font>On 8/1/2016 4:07 PM, Kathy Dopp wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Sennet, IRV grossly violates the one person/one vote requirement
because, even if all voters rank the same number of candidates, say 3,
some voters never have their 2nd or 3rd choices considered, even
though their 1st choice loses, whereas other voters may have all 3
choices considered or have their 1st choice win. Range voting at
least uses a fundamentally fair counting method, unlike IRV, which can
easily eliminate the favorite candidate of a majority of voters and,
most often, does not elect a candidate supported by a majority of
voters.
Sennet Williams Re: [EM] Election-Methods Digest, Vol 145, Issue 6?
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<pre wrap="">range voting is illegal in the u.s.,? simple.? it violates the one person-one vote law.? IRV/condorcet is definitely the most logical voting system for identifying the most popular candidate.? Due to cultural evolution, IRV will? finally be enacted and end all the wars caused by parliament, the govt. of war.
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