> > Also, I think IRV's seemingly intuitive nature has something to do with it. > For those who *did* investigate more deeply, IRV seemed sensible, too: > instead of holding a bunch of expensive runoffs, collect all the required > information at once and then act as if there were runoffs. That fails to > account for the dynamics between the rounds, but that's a subtle detail and > might easily be missed. >
I, too, must admit that IRV has a natural feeling to it. I had a friend who described to me a system he thought of "on his own" and he ended up describing IRV.
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