Don:
IRV promoters often say that Condorcet compromises when they don't want to, or that Condorcet looks at "lower choices", which you would rather not do. No problem. Don't vote preferences that you don't want counted. No one will force you to compromise if you don't want to. But if you do vote "lower preferences", Condorcet, like Approval, will reliably count every pairwise preference that you choose to vote. With IRV, you can vote a preference, and it may or may not be counted. Some at CVD like to say that IRV never lets your lower choices hurt your favorite. No, because it eliminates your favorite before it lets you help a lower choice. IRV saves your favorite by eliminating him. Electoral euthanasia. Voting a lower choice doesn't have to hurt your favorite--IRV hurts your favorite when it eliminates him/her based on its arbitrary favoriteness-count. Voting a 2nd choice, in IRV, may not hurt your favorite, but it might not hurt your last choice either, or help your 2nd choice. Mike Ossipoff _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
