> Therefore IRV/STV is no better than plurality, but has extra very > serious flaws, inequities, and vagaries that plurality does not have.
I definitively disagree. Plurality is worst than IRV. The flaws that IRV does have are real. But these problems appear very less often than the splitting-vote issue of FPTP.
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