Re: [EM] IRRV as best popular name for Condorcet voting

2004-09-19 Thread Bart Ingles
Steve Eppley wrote: Hi, Paul K wrote about my suggestion to drop the V from IRRV: But... for the same reason there shouldn't be a "V" on the end of IRV. It should be IRO for instant run off. Years ago, some people did refer to it as IRO. But runoff is the correct term; it's not two words. Despi

Re: [EM] IRRV as best popular name for Condorcet voting

2004-09-19 Thread RLSuter
Steve Eppley wrote: >> I agree with Jan Kok's suggestion that IRRV >> ("Instant Round Robin Voting") be used as >> a popular name for Condorcet voting. > -snip- > > Why not drop the 'V'? Three-letter acronyms > are better than 4, I think, and the 'V' is > redundant given the context. > > I do

RE: [EM] IRRV as best popular name for Condorcet voting

2004-09-19 Thread Steve Eppley
Hi, Paul K wrote about my suggestion to drop the V from IRRV: > I had something of the same notion (and being more nearly > an average voter than a voting methods scholar, I agree > with this). > > But... for the same reason there shouldn't be a "V" on > the end of IRV. It should be IRO for in

Re: [EM] IRRV as best popular name for Condorcet voting

2004-09-19 Thread Steve Eppley
Hi, Ralph S wrote: > I agree with Jan Kok's suggestion that IRRV > ("Instant Round Robin Voting") be used as > a popular name for Condorcet voting. -snip- Why not drop the 'V'? Three-letter acronyms are better than 4, I think, and the 'V' is redundant given the context. I do have some concer

[EM] IRRV as best popular name for Condorcet voting

2004-09-19 Thread RLSuter
I agree with Jan Kok's suggestion that IRRV ("Instant Round Robin Voting") be used as a popular name for Condorcet voting. I believe this name works best in comparing it with IRV to people not familiar with different voting methods, as follows: Both IRV and IRRV would use identical kinds of ballo