I’ve been moderately hard on IRV, and its supporters, in the above. I want to state here for the record that though IRV is my least-favorite serious* reform proposal, I think that it would solve a substantial fraction of the voting-system dysfunction of FPTP; that if IRV were more of a focus of this essay than it is, there are other decent pro-IRV arguments I could include; and that there are IRV supporters whose intellect and judgement I respect even as I disagree with them on this.
I’ve been moderately hard on IRV, and its supporters, in the above. I want to state here for the record that though IRV is my least-favorite serious* reform proposal, I think that it would solve a substantial fraction of the voting-system dysfunction of FPTP; that if IRV were more of a focus of this essay than it is, there are other decent pro-IRV arguments I could include; and that there are IRV supporters whose intellect and judgement I respect even as I disagree with them on this.
*That excludes Borda. #SorryNotSaari