To: Benjamin Grant <b...@4efix.com>
Most IRV in real world limits the rankings to 3 candidates per voter. In my approach, I treat the rankings as approval votes in the first round and tally up the number of times each candidate gets "ranked" to determine 3 finalists.There are 10 ways to rank 3 finalists so I sort the votes into these 10 categories, tally them up and use the info to have an instant runoff vote among the 3 finalists. Ben, this is the approach that I said gave the same result for all of the cases you brought up in your initial email to the list, which illustrated why you thought IRV was flawed. dlw
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