I'm late to the party, but I downloaded their vote data and ran it
through my software and wrote up a page on it here:
http://bolson.org/~bolson/2009/20090303_burlington_vt_mayor.html
I think the most important point is the fundamental failure of IRV as
itself, not any quibbling over a bad ballot here or there.
Also, I _like_ this stuff and didn't manage to read through Warren's
verbose pages on the topic, and I have tried to be more terse.
On Mar 29, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Warren Smith wrote:
Bouricius and Richie (FairVote)
objected to the fact that many of the lies in
their multiyear propaganda/lying campaign to mislead
millions about IRV had been refuted by us by analysing
IRV's pathologies in the Burlington 2009 mayoral election.
(A lot of the FairVote lies
are conveniently outlined in GREEN in our
http://rangevoting.org/Burlington.html
and
http://rangevoting.org/BurlResponses.html
pages; more are documented at, e.g,
http://rangevoting.org/Irvtalk.html .)
Although most of their new objections were as-pathetic and
misleadling as
their usuals, they did contribute one correct one.
As a result, we have added the following update section to this
page:
http://rangevoting.org/BurlResponses.html#update
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