[EM] IRV inconsistency

Bart Ingles bartman at netgate.net
Mon May 14 23:03:55 PDT 2001



Forest Simmons wrote:
> 
> Here's an inconsistency of IRV that I wish somebody had told me about
> before I submitted my article to the Green Voice.
> 
> It is possible for a candidate to "win" every precinct without winning the
> election.

The property not being met here is actually called "consistency", if I'm
not mistaken.  Approval, Plurality, and Borda are consistent, but not
many others.  Maybe some variants of those three.



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