Mike,
I'm mostly a lurker on this list, but I'd like to respond to your letter.
(1) IRV is better than plurality. I'm assuming that you and most everyone on this list agrees with this.
I believe you are incorrect.
Examples have previously been given which demonstrates IRV inability to perform better then Plurality. In these cases, IRV has failed to select the Condorcet Winner while Plurality did select the Condorcet Winner.
While the flaws of IRV and Plurality are different, those flaws do not allow me to claim that either is better then the other.
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