Dear Greg, you wrote (25 Nov 2008):
> I've studied every IRV election for public > office ever held in the United States, most > of which have their full ranking data publicly > available, and every single time IRV elected > the Condorcet winner, something I consider to > be a good, though not perfect, rule of thumb > for determining the "right" winner. When you > present a case in which IRV did not elect the > right winner, maybe I'll agree or maybe I'll > dispute your criteria, but at least then we'd > be off the blackboard and into the world of > real elections. If I remember correctly, Abd wrote that, in every IRV election for public office ever held in the USA, the IRV winner was identical to the plurality winner. Doesn't that mean that -- when we apply your logic -- plurality voting always elects the right winner? Markus Schulze ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info