[EM] Smith Sets with >3 members

Markus Schulze markus.schulze at alumni.tu-berlin.de
Wed Feb 27 02:59:57 PST 2002


Dear Forest,

> It seems to me that another problem of Copeland methods is that they
> encourage favorite betrayal in the same way IRV does: if your compromise
> has a better chance of winning the election than your favorite, but your
> favorite has a good chance of beating your compromise, then you (and like
> minded voters) vote your compromise above your favorite to maximize your
> compromise's chance of getting one more win.

In so far as Copeland is monotonic, you cannot increase your favorite's
chance of winning the elections by voting another candidate above your
favorite.

Markus Schulze



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