On May 12, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
BTR-IRV is like IRV, but when deciding which candidate to eliminate, you check the two worst candidates (Plurality wise), and the one that is beaten by the other is eliminated. This ensures that a CW can never be eliminated, for it will beat all other candidates.
wow! i never heard of that. it's a Condorcet-compliant method that uses IRV-like elimination, but the elimination is smarter than what is commonly done with IRV. intriguing.
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