On 06/24/2013 05:08 PM, David L Wetzell wrote:
To ignore the simple upgrade to IRV that I have proffered and defended at length on this list-serve, when you argue against IRV?
Yes, for many reasons. Among them: because other simple upgrades give way greater bang for the buck.
Consider BTR-IRV: It's like IRV, except when eliminating, you don't remove the Plurality loser. Instead, you eliminate, of the two with worst Plurality results for that round, whoever is ranked below the other on the most ballots.
That's two sentences, and boom, Condorcet compliance (and thus resistance against Burlington scenarios).
I can hear the counter: "But it's not IRV! It doesn't have momentum!" But whatever force that counter has against BTR-IRV, it also has against your unproven hybrid.
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