[EM] Unranked IRV versus Approval - where do winners diverge?

MIKE OSSIPOFF nkklrp at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 29 01:07:06 PST 2001



>What if Unranked-IRV is equivalent to Approval (for single seat 
>elections)?!

>My intuition offers a sweet reply, although I may be wrong.
>
>It can't really be! But where is a counter-example? I would think if it is
>false, a counter example would exist for 3 candidates.

Didn't I post an example of UIRV failing FBC? I'll post it tomorrow.

But even if it turned out that UIRV always gave the same outcome as
Approval, with the same voting, why would you want that more
complicated method?


Mike Ossipoff

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