[EM] equal rankings IRV
James Green-Armytage
jarmyta at antioch-college.edu
Tue Jun 15 18:59:02 PDT 2004
Markus wrote:
>Here is an example where ER-IRV(fractional) violates
>Steve Eppley's "Non-Drastic Defense" criterion:
> 20 A=B=C>E>...
> 20 A=B=D>E>...
> 20 A=C=D>E>...
> 7 B>E>...
> 7 C>E>...
> 7 D>E>...
> 38 E>...
> A majority of the voters strictly prefers candidate A
> to candidate E and ranks candidate A tied for top.
> Nevertheless, candidate E is the winner.
I reply:
Yes, this is a bad example for ER-IRV compared to methods such as
Condorcet, but I think it's not an example where standard IRV would do any
better. Correct?
James
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