2013/1/18 Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_el...@lavabit.com> > On 01/17/2013 06:07 PM, Richard Fobes wrote: > > Soon enough, just as has happened in Aspen (CO) and Burlington (VT), the >> weaknesses of IRV counting will get exposed. In the meantime, just >> getting people to talk about, and think about, the possibility of better >> ballots and better counting methods is a wonderful development. >> > > I just hope that won't lead to a false confusion of IRV with ranked > balloting itself and thus thoughts that ranked balloting can't work because > IRV blows up spectacularly in an n-way race with n > 2.
I'd say it works until n>=2.5, but yes, you're right in general. Jameson
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