FPTP ...) In STV 2nd preference won't harm 1st choice

Craig Carey research at ijs.co.nz
Sun Feb 14 14:39:41 PST 1999


At 08:36 15.12.99 , Bart Ingles wrote:
>Markus Schulze wrote:
...
>> Example:
>> 
>>   7 voters vote A > B > C.
>>   6 voters vote B > A > C.
>>   8 voters vote C > B > A.
>> 
...

>The claim under AV/IRV that your second choice will never harm your
>first choice is also false -- the six BAC voters can attempt to coerce
>some of the ABC voters into supporting B, either by truncating or by
>order reversal (announcing their plans publicly before the election.










If that is the STV method, then the second choice can't harm the
 candidate of the first preference. The word "false", could be changed
 to the word "true". 



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