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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="uficommentbody"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">The tree is known by its fruits.<br>
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style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">So, election methods cannot be perfect. Whoever
said they could? This superficial conclusion has caused
immense mischief to the improvement of election methods. The
Plant report eagerly seized on it, to justify digging their
heels in, or dumping, half a dozen dud voting systems on the
British public. </span></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">New Zealand</span></span><span
class="uficommentbody"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold""> took their cue from Plant, in their Royal
Commission on election systems. And now </span></span><span
class="uficommentbody"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">Canada</span></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold""> is blithely
following. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="uficommentbody"><span
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style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">I</span></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Arial Rounded MT
Bold"">mperfection is in the voters knowledge of who to
elect. They must act on imperfect information. And their
choices must be probabilities. An election is a statistical
summation with margins of error. Election method is improved
by further marginalising the errors. Imperfection is not a
conclusion about election methods, it is a premise, on which
they are founded.</span></span> </p>
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