On November 6, the voters of Sarasota, Florida, approved using Instant-Runoff Voting for city elections. That policy can’t go into effect until the state of Florida certifies some vote-counting equipment that can handle IRV. The margin in favor was 3-1.
Major defects of the Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) Method, 30 May 2007
Times are ROUGH and TOUGH — like 1860 or 1932. The *middle* is very divided.
34 H W S
33 S W H
16 W H S
16 W S H
99
Place Votes Table
1 2 3
H 34 16 49 99
S 33 16 50 99
W 32 67 0 99
99 99 99
With IRV, W loses. H beats S 50-49.
Head to head (Condorcet method) —
W beats H 65-34
W beats S 66-33
W WINS.
IF the first 2 place votes are *YES* votes (as in Approval Voting), then —
H 50
S 49
W 99
W WINS
IF the Bucklin Method is used (add place votes to get a majority), then adding the place 1 and place 2 votes —
H 50
S 49
W 99
W WINS
H Hitler, S Stalin, W George Washington (American General in the 1775-1781 American Revolution and the first U.S. President)
IRV is super-dangerous since it ignores most of the data in a place votes table — regardless of the New Age mindless math MORONS hyping IRV in various places — especially for executive / judicial offices.
IRV WILL nominate / elect HITLER / STALIN TYPE extremists —- who will claim a mighty IRV majority *mandate* for their EVIL stuff — while defeating compromise candidates — especially for offices like President, Governor, mayor, etc.
———
ALL voting methods have problems with 3 or more choices. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system
Example – divided majority
26 AB
25 BA
49 Z