Kevin Standlee: Fandom Is My Way of Life

Well, it' not snake oil, it's a vastly better voting method. If you use IRV instead of Range Voting, you are shooting yourself in the foot, because YOU will be less happy with the result of the election, because IRV produces a substantially lower social utility efficiency than Range Voting.

See: http://rangevoting.org/IrvExec.html

Here is an example of how "dumb" IRV is:

Voting honestly in IRV can be worse for you than not voting at all
#voters their vote
7 B>G>N
6 G>B>N
5 N>G>B
3 N>G>B

In this 21-voter IRV election, B wins (by 15-to-8 after G is eliminated). But if the 3 voters in the last line had not voted, then G would have won (which those voters would have preferred). (Because N is eliminated then G beats B by 11-to-7.).