> At 6:16 PM +0930 4/26/04, Chris Benham wrote: Eric Gorr wrote:
> That IRV can and will fail to select the Condorcet Winner in a > significant number of elections, is again sufficient for me to oppose > IRV. I simply do not want to take the risk that the most preferred > candidate (as defined by the Condorcet Criterion) would not be > selected. Chris Benham's point was that the CW is more likely to lose under Plurality than under IRV. Therefore you either need to refute his point, or you need to support IRV over Plurality. -Bill Clark -- Protest the 2-Party Duopoly: http://votenader.org/ ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
