Someone wrote:
Seen in that light, the quarrels that some of us have with IRV supporters are like quarrels between scientists with different ideas for curing cancer, not a quarrel between a cancer researcher and a tobacco executive. I reply: Howabout quarrels between legitimate cancer researchers and promoters of bullshit snake-oil as a cancer cure? We've all heard about how phoney cures waste valuable time when they distract people from genuine cures. Sure, there are a few ways in which IRV is marginally better than Plurality, and there are also ways in which IRV is clearly worse than Plurality (Monotonicity, Summability, Participation, etc.) When something as simple as Approval is a clear, definite & obvious improvement over Plurality (and over IRV too), why not tell people about IRV's deficiency wherever IRV is proposed. I've sent information about IRV to Alaska's Democrat party and have suggested some points for ballot arguments against IRV. I encourage others to do the same, in Alaska, and wherever else the IRV snake-oil promoters are at work. Mike Ossipoff _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
