Tom,

You make an interesting point when you say that "almost never will a body 
that has power to write the rules for its own elections, choose FPTP voting 
for itself."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that in such cases bodies almost never 
choose PR, AV, IRV, or Condorcet either. Instead, the prefered method seems 
to be having a series of elections with many candidates which continue until 
one candidate reaches a majority. For obvious reasons, *that* system would 
not be workable on a large scale, so the question is really about what the 
second best system would be.

-Josiah 

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