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

[Raph Frank]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <abd at lomaxdesign.com> wrote:
> Top Two Runoff has an obvious problem, if the first round is simple
> vote-for-one. Sometimes a compromise candidate fails to make it into the
> runoff. This is really the same problem as IRV, but the problem doesn't
> exist -- or is ameliorated -- under some election rules. In particular,
> Robert's Rules, for runoff elections, does not allow ballot restriction.

As a compromise to repeating the balloting until the deadlock is
resolved, what about the following rules

Round 1

- All candidates on the ballot
- If a candidate gets a majority, he is elected and no further rounds held

Round 2

- All candidates on the ballot
- The top 2 from round 1 appear first on the ballot and are marked as top-2
- If a candidate gets a majority, he is elected and round 3 is not held

Round 3

- One of the top 2 from round 1 is on the ballot
-- (the one who received the most votes in round 2)

- The plurality winner of round 2 is on the ballot
-- (excluding the above candidate)

- Candidate with the most votes wins

This gives the voters 2 chances to pick a majority winner before going
to run-off.

In a 'normal' top-2 situation, the top 2 will also be the top 2 in
round 2 and they will be the 2 candidates for round 3.  In fact, it
would likely result in round 2 being the last round as one of them
would get a majority.