[EM] Need IRV examples; voting show

[James Gilmour]

Bart wrote:
> But that's not a consistency violation.  Consistency, as applied to
> election methods, means that if ALL districts elect the same candidate
> separately, then when combined they should still elect that candidate.
> Plurality, Approval, and Borda are all consistent.

Maybe so.  But that is not the real question.  "Consistency" (as defined above) is
not a relevant criterion.
There is only one result - the gross tabulation.  Nothing else matters in the real
world.
It is an amusing academic exercise to divide the gross result into various subsets
and show how each might have given different results. So what?

Plurality, Approval and Borda may well meet the definition of "consistency", but
they sure have some more serious defects.
James

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