[EM] Can someone point me at an example of the nonmonotonicity of IRV?

[Kathy Dopp]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Chris Benham <cbenhamau at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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> Unfortunately it is true that a subset of voters can make their sincere
> first choice X lose by by top-ranking X  *instead of top-ranking some
> other candidate Y*, but  NOT by top-ranking X instead of staying home.
>

Can you imagine knowingly supporting a voting system where voters have
no idea how to rank their first choice candidate (first or last or in
between) in order to help their first choice candidate win?!

I.e. ranking one's first choice candidate LAST, may help one's first
choice candidate win, whereas ranking one's first choice candidate
FIRST will not.

IRV proponents seem to have nothing better to do than to try to screw
up our voting systems more than they are already screwed up.

So if Australians all jump off a cliff into an ocean full of sharks,
then the U.S. voters should too?

Chris, I'll never understand your thinking, thank goodness.

Kathy