Dave Farber’s Interesting People list recently carried a brief article by the computer scientist Stephen Unger, warning about the shortcomings of Instant Runoff Voting.
As Unger points out:
… while IRV does work as advertised in some important situations, there are also situations in which it produces bizarre results. For example, there are cases where a [...]
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Life intervened. I had to put indaba aside for an extended period in order to produce some income and to help a friend who was dealing with medical troubles. Nevertheless, I’ve gotten a lot done, including stabilizing the CSS template, adding some nifty Java tooltips, and putting up a mission statement. I’m in the middle [...]
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Two people have tried the system so far, and both had good suggestions for improvements. Neither found it intuitve, but they both got it after a brief explanation. Nothing blew up, which is a good thing, of course.
There’s still a little issue about how the results sort out on the bottom line of [...]
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There’s been lots of progress. It’s now possible to post ballots via the web interface (though this still depends on manual entry of a Voter_ID), and there are working (if drafty) displays of the Ballot Tally and the top row of the Irving Chart on the main Elections page. More to do, but it looks [...]
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