[EM] IRV inconsistency

Martin Harper mcnh2 at cam.ac.uk
Thu May 17 04:34:15 PDT 2001


Markus Schulze wrote:

> Dear Forest,
> 
> you wrote (16 May 2001):
> 
>> Markus doesn't consider Approval Condorcet Maximum Approval (ACMA) to be
>> a true Condorcet method because it requires more information than the
>> other Condorcet methods do, namely the Yes/No approval information or the
>> ranking of an (extra) virtual reference candidate MAC (Minimum Acceptable
>> Candidate).
> 
> 
> Nope! To prove that the consistency criterion and the Condorcet criterion
> are incompatible it is not necessary to presume that the winner of the used
> election method depends only on the relative rankings of the voters. The
> proof is valid for every election method that meets the Condorcet criterion.

ACMA doesn't pass the Condorcet criterion, of course... ;-)



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