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

[James Gilmour]

Juho > Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 9:19 PM
> It is not easy to use the monotonicity failures to intentionally 
> improve/falsify the results (in typical large public elections).

I would go further, with respect to typical large public elections, with thousands or tens of thousands of voters, and say that it
is impossible for either a candidate or a voter to exploit the non-monotonicity defect in such an IRV election.

It COULD be different when a committee of, say, ten people elects an office-bearer AND the members of that committee know a great
deal about the likely voting preferences of all the member of the committee.  Then it MIGHT be possible for a voter to exploit the
non-monotonicity to help secure that voter's sincerely desired result.

James Gilmour

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