[EM] Fixing IRV

Markus Schulze schulze at sol.physik.tu-berlin.de
Wed Aug 8 11:33:41 PDT 2001


Dear Richard,

you wrote (7 Aug 2001):
> Actually, IIRC, there is a proof somewhere in the literature
> that elimination methods are not monotonic. Does anyone recall
> the theorem I mentioned above about elimination and monotonicity?

Some elimination methods are monotonic (e.g. Ranked Pairs). Some
methods are not monotonic although they don't use eliminations
(e.g. Dodgson).

Markus Schulze



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