On Jul 7, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
Russ's message about simplicity is well-taken. But the most successful voting reform is IRV - which is far from being the simplest reform. Why has IRV been successful?
how can one answer a question when one does not accept the premise of it?
my take is that IRV is only successful when it elects the Condorcet winner.
I want to leave this as an open question for others before I try to answer it myself. The one answer which wouldn't be useful would be "Because CVD (now FairVote) was looking for a single-winner version of STV". There's a bit of truth there, but it's a long way from the whole truth, and we want to find lessons we can learn from moving forward, not useless historical accidents.
are you defining "successful" in that it may have a foothold usage in governmental elections whereas Condorcet has not been used in such?
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