response to a recent IP posting on Instant Runoff Voting (IRV).

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Stephen H. Unger" <shu2 () columbia edu>
> Date: April 22, 2018 at 12:05:57 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com>
> Subject: Item for IP
>
> Dave,
>
> Following is a response to a recent IP posting on Instant Runoff Voting (IRV).
>
> Steve
> …………..
> Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) seems, at first look, to be a great way to improve our elections. But a closer 
> examination reveals that it can produce clearly irrational results. For example, it is not hard to construct cases 
> where an IRV winner would have been defeated in a 2-candidate election by at least one of the losing candidates. 
>
> IRV is also a very complex method. Processing an IRV election is far more difficult and costly than processing a 
> conventional election.
>
> A far better election scheme is Approval Voting (AV): a very simple system, where voters can vote for any number of 
> the candidates on the ballot. This deals effectively with such dilemmas as multiple candidates with similar 
> platforms, or cases where the voter dislikes the front runners. There are no bizarre cases such as those that can 
> turn up in IRV elections. AV elections are no more difficult to process than are traditional elections. 
>
> For a discussion of IRV, see http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/irv.html
> For a discussion of AV, see https://electology.org/approval-voting
>
> Steve Unger 4/22/18



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