[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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