Robert Bristow-Johnson wrote (9 Nov 2009):
"Of course IRV, Condorcet, and Borda use different methods to tabulate
the votes and select the winner and my opinion is that IRV ("asset
voting", i might call it "commodity voting": your vote is a
"commodity" that you transfer according to your preferences) is a
kabuki dance of transferred votes. and there is an *arbitrary*
evaluation in the elimination of candidates in the IRV rounds: 2nd-
choice votes don't count for shit in deciding who to eliminate (who
decided that? 2nd-choice votes are as good as last-choice? under
what meaningful and consistent philosophy was that decided?), then
when your candidate is eliminated your 2nd-choice vote counts as much
as your 1st-choice."
Regarding IRV's "philosophy": each voter has single vote that is transferable
according to a rule that meets Later-no-Harm, Later-no-Help and Majority
for Solid Coalitions.
I rate IRV (Alternative Vote with unlimited strict ranking from the top) as the
best of the single-winner methods that meet Later-no-Harm.
Chris Benham
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