Ok, there's no getting through to Tom or Don on this issue. What this shows is that, with so many ways to count ranked ballots, lots of people will be confused about it, and there's a good chance that we'll end up with a rank-count, IRV in particular, that's nowhere near as good as Approval. That's why, if IRVies will be involved in a particular choice of voting systems for some jurisdiction, Approval is most likely a better proposal than Condorcet or any rank method, because the IRVies will get their meritless rank-count rule enacted if we don't offer alternatives to rank-balloting. Approval or CR, that is. Let's do polling, asking people which of those they'd be more inclined to vote "yes" on, in an enactment initiative. And, where IRVies are involved, let's not try to enact a good rank method. Mike Ossipoff _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
