Re: [EM] IRV vs Range on totalizing machines

2005-08-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:26 AM 8/19/2005, Warren Smith wrote: Second, it is *false* that you can do IRV on totalizing machines such as New York's lever mechanical-counter machines (which involve a lot of binary levers on the front, and there are counters you can read on the back). There could indeed be a way for a

RE: [EM] IRV vs Range on totalizing machines

2005-08-19 Thread James Gilmour
Warren Smith Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 3:27 PM > and the fact the New York city in 1937 was using STV voting - > they later abandoned it and switched back to plurality, a > fact that IRV advocates sometimes seem to conveniently ignore > and/or do not examine sufficiently). It's not at all c