So if you "apply" STV to a one-seat election, you get IRV. AND YOU SHOULD CALL IT IRV, NOT STV.
So there should be a different name for every different number of winners that you can use STV for? So if we're picking a council of 10 winners, that should have its own name, and if 20 winners, then that should have its own name too. You disagree? Then why arbitrarily decide that STV applied to a single winner race is somehow qualitatively different from one with two or three winners? It isn't.
Furthermore, this has nothing to do with the fact that IRV IS STV.
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Date: 2007-02-10 09:40 pm (UTC)So there should be a different name for every different number of winners that you can use STV for? So if we're picking a council of 10 winners, that should have its own name, and if 20 winners, then that should have its own name too. You disagree? Then why arbitrarily decide that STV applied to a single winner race is somehow qualitatively different from one with two or three winners? It isn't.
Furthermore, this has nothing to do with the fact that IRV IS STV.