It's no more crap than your cranky knee-jerk comments, which are clearly
based on your speculative (and therefore dubious) negative assumptions
about the intent of the article's author and the people who conducted
the university study. The article only briefly describes that study
(which runs to 23 pages) and also refers to a separate study done by the
news organization the author writes for (the Bay Citizen). In fact, an
earlier article by the same author describing the Bay Citizen study
sympathetically and at some length quotes two well-known long time
supporters of RCV, Rob Richie and Steven Hill. A strong opponent of RCV,
Terry Reilly, is also quoted, but at much less length. Both the
university study (titled a "preliminary RCV analysis") and the earlier
Bay Citizen article are posted on the web. You should read them before
posting any more comments about them or defending your initial ones.
earlier Bay Citizen article:
http://www.baycitizen.org/sf-mayoral-race/story/how-ranked-choice-voting-silenced-voters/
University of San Francisco study:
http://www.baycitizen.org/documents/usf-rcv-ballot-analysis/
OR
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/269123/usf-rcv-ballot-analysis.pdf
On 12/2/2011 7:12 PM, David L Wetzell wrote:
This is crap!
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