On Feb 25, 2007, at 2:05 , Jan Kok wrote: > Are there any Australian web sites, blogs, newspaper or magazine > editorials, etc. that criticize IRV? > > http://australianpolitics.com/voting/systems/preferential.shtml is not > strongly critical but does say "It [IRV] promotes a two-party system > to the detriment of minor parties and independents." I've asked the > author of that site why he said that, but haven't received a response.
Also this list has had discussions on the Australian system. It has some peculiarities that are relevant in the two-party domination related discussions. With a quick search I found the following mail by Chris Benham that has further links to older mails. http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/ 2005-June/016136.html Juho ___________________________________________________________ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
