I've posted the latest plaintiffs' legal brief here. Plaintiffs attorneys are brilliant and this brief is actually fun to read the way plaintiffs' attorneys expose all the disinformation told the court by the defendants' attorneys and use Fair Vote's own words and the words of the Minnesota Supreme Court Judges against the restricted San Francisco rank only three version of IRV.
http://kathydopp.com/wordpress/?cat=8 IRV may now hopefully be delayed in Berkeley and Oakland long enough for some sanity to regain a footing there, and San Francisco may be returning to hand counting its really really long paper ballots (there are 20 candidates registered to run in just one contest.) This may cost SF a lot of money and be a boon to a voting machine vendor that can figure out how to count 20+ candidates using IRV on a paper optical scan ballot. I still fail to comprehend how UnFair Vote can keep raising money to fund all the local efforts to implement the only alternative voting method that fails more of Arrow's Fairness criteria than plurality voting does (fails nonmonotonicity as well as irrelevant alternatives - the spoiler effect of a non-winning candidate) and eviscerates the ability of the average citizen to verify the accuracy of election results by being essentially not precinct summable except by reporting all voters' choices for each precinct or 20! tallies for each precinct for each candidate. Perhaps Unfair Vote will pour all its funds into this legal case in San Francisco now to try to defeat this case? Anyway, this was the most fun I've had reading a legal brief. I've got it posted from my blog link above. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 "One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts." Realities Mar Instant Runoff Voting http://electionmathematics.org/ucvAnalysis/US/RCV-IRV/InstantRunoffVotingFlaws.pdf Voters Have Reason to Worry http://utahcountvotes.org/UT/UtahCountVotes-ThadHall-Response.pdf Checking election outcome accuracy http://electionmathematics.org/em-audits/US/PEAuditSamplingMethods.pdf ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
