> From: "Terry Bouricius" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [EM] Does IRV elect "majority winners?"
> Since the two-round runoff election system widely used in the U.S. that > involves counting votes in two rounds is said to always elect a "majority > winner," meaning a majority of votes from those voters who chose to express a > preference between the two candidates who made it into the final runoff, then > by the identical logic, an IRV winner is also a "majority winner" Terry, That is very convoluted logic, but I suppose it works as long as you ignore obvious facts including: 1. that voters in an one-election IRV contest cannot know for certain in advance who will be in the final IRV counting round (unless you imagine that all voters are psychic and can know how all other voters will vote) - so voters are not given the choice to participate in the final IRV counting round, they are arbitrarily excluded from participation depending on how other voters vote, and 2. that *all* voters in two election runoff election do participate in the final counting round. Terry, this is a very slick way to justify mislead people on the facts by ignoring obvious factual differences between a one election IRV scenario versus a two-election top-two runoff scenario. Not surprising though. Kathy ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
