I believe that pairwise (Condorcet) methods are far superior to IRV. Why don you?
A small group of people ardently supports pairwise methods. To that end, it ardently opposes IRV. Here’s what the debate boils down to. An ideal voting system would allow voters to express their honest preferences, without having their second choice hurt their first choice, or the other way around if their first choice is not going to win. It turns out that this is mathematically impossible, and a tradeoff must be made. Imagine that you are at a car auction, and you can only make one bid. If you hold out at $3000, you may get the car, but there is some risk that you will be walking home. On the other hand, if you offer $6000, you can be certain that you’ll be driving home. Voting always involves a similar bargaining process between yourself and all other voters. Much of the bargaining is built into the system, including the bid amounts. With plurality voting, it’s as if you can only make one bid. With IRV, you hold out on your bid if it is competitive, but you get your compromise bid i
