RalphInOttawa

I was a computer programmer. I've been retired for almost 15 years. BediseBeside working for a living, I did run for political office twice, losing on October 25 both times. Therefore, that's not my lucky day. As a reult of losing thatthe first time, 30 years ago, I became very interested in having a better voting system for electing representation. The systems out there all seemed to have problems. I came across the Condorcet methods demonstrator on a Robla webpage back in 1999(?). After many years of trying to find or make a perfect voting system, I triedgave to forget aboutup. Last winter (January 2023), there was some irritating election result, or someone's smart comments ... and I goitgot to thinking that I need to write out a step by step process to fix IRV before I die. I came up with my MIRV process (Multiple Instant runoffRunoff Voting) on paper. It was hard to explain and nearly impossibleboring to describetalk through it. Then I was fortunate to havebuy Googlea SheetsChrome forBook free. I knew very little about spreadsheets.and Howevernoticed I knew I didn't want to learn tocould use some computer programming language. Google Sheets isfor likefree. anI old version of EXCEL, withknew very limitedlittle commandsabout and toolsspreadsheets. I decided to give it try. Now, it's October, and I think I've made something different, something new. Too complicated? Perhaps. I would argue, it's a spreadsheet. It's all there. Simple arithmetic. Simple logic. It's a push of a button. I would say you can't get to the moon using a horse and buggy.