Reply #12: IRV - Instant Republican Victory

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Pitfalls of IRV, or why it should be called
Instant Republican Victory

The big problem with IRV is that the winner is very often a candidate who would have lost to
one or more of the other candidates in a one to one contest. This is not just an
occasional problem but would likely happen frequently.
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-...


IRV: Instant Runoff Voting, a distraction from fixing a broken system
... IRV does not address the key issues of vote fraud -
the use of voting machines (of whatever flavor),
the role of the CIA, big money, ...
www.oilempire.us/irv.html


There is more than meets the eye to IRV:
IRV gives Third Parties an unproportional amount of political power
IRV requires deliberate strategy of ranking of votes (voter ed critical here)
IRV gives rise to Vote-Brokering
IRV is too complex and expensive for our present voting infrastructure
IRV avails itself to election manipulation by strategically placing candidates in a certain order
popular candidates can be defeated even though they would have normally won an IRV election
http://www.utahpolitics.org/archives/000173.shtml

IRV gave Australia Howard, and Israel Sharon.