Kathy Dopp wrote:
That anyone would suggest that anyone should use such an inane voting method as IRV/STV is beyond my understanding - except if they are trying to help voting machine vendors profit by selling an all-new round of high-tech voting machines or if they are trying to implement a voting method that makes it much more difficult to detect vote fraud when it occurs.
I guess that it's a combination of many things. Some may know only of IRV, others think monotonicity is unimportant (and a "technical" flaw similar to those used by opponents who prefer Plurality); and the leaders have committed to IRV and are thus "stuck" with it. STV is much simpler than CPO-STV also, so the "IRV then STV" strategy may explain some part of it.
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