Thank you very much Warren, Juho, Raphfrk, and Ab dul. I forwarded two of your responses and Joyce McCloy's response re. NC to the LWV list to correct some of the misinformation.
The thing that made me oppose IRV was when I tried out some scenarios in a spreadsheet and found out that IRV can put the candidate "Least" favored by voters (favored by the smallest number of voters overall) into office and so I believe can help the least favored of the two major political parties gain control of our government, despite the wishes of voters. However, I had not even thought of the need to count all state-level races at the State-level, rather than the county level, or about some of the other issues you mentioned. Thanks for such informative responses. Cheers, Kathy ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
