[EM] Brian Olson's multiwinner IRNR idea seems busted

[Warren Smith]

I sent Brian what I believe is a counterexample to proportionality for both
his suggested method, and a wide class of ways to try to generalize it.

I won't give the details here, since mixed in with a lot of other crud
I emailed him.  But quickie crude sketch is:

Consider 2 winners and N candidates and
all votes of form (1,1,1,...,1,0) or (0,0,0,...,0,1);
pick N and the proportions of the 2 kinds of voters, to make the voting method
mess up.

Anyway, we'll see what Brian says if & when he responds to the flood.

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Warren D. Smith
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