I'm glad to see that I generated some interest in proportional elections
although, so far, it seems to be less that the interest in IRV.
Jeanne Massey argued, "IRV and PR are complementary, not at odds with
each other."
I'm sorry, you're going to have to explain this to me further because I
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In reply to Steve Cross' arguments for Proportional Representation (PR).
First, another clarification: The origin of IRV for municipal elections did
not grow out of the idea of IRV for endorsements; it was the other way
around. There is an effort around IRV for municipal elections and the idea
of
The issue on IRV started out on whether IRV should be used by the DFL in
Ward 2 to deal with the multiple candidates and the prospect of a long
convention. It transmogrified into whether Minneapolis should use IRV
for all of its elections. Apparently several different camps are going
to propo