[EM] New MN court affidavits by those defending non-Monotonic voting methods & IRV/STV

[Chris Benham]

Greg wrote (Th.Nov.6):
Those documents make a good case. If you rule IRV/STV unconstitutional
due to non-monotonicity, you have to be prepared to rule open
primaries and top-two primaries unconstitutional as well.

Note also that other arguments by the "MN Voter's Alliance" would, if
successful, would render *any* voting method that involves putting
marks next to multiple candidates -- IRV, Bucklin, Approval,
Condorcet, Range -- by its nature unconstitutional.

-snip-

That anti-IRV group explicitly say as much:

"Additional note:  There are several other "non-traditional" voting methods 
currently being advocated around the country. Among these are Range Voting
and Approval Voting. (See the NYU report linked above) While these schemes
are better in some ways than IRV, they retain some of the same fatal flaws which
 make IRV unconstitutional."

http://www.mnvoters.org/IRV.htm


Chris Benham



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