[EM] About non-monotonicity and non-responding to previous posts...

Stéphane Rouillon stephane.rouillon at sympatico.ca
Wed Nov 4 20:20:16 PST 2009


Miss Dopp was promoting FPTP in the past, saying IRV is non-monotonic,
until I showed that FPTP vote-splitting behaviour is non-monotonic too.

> - more voters prefer B to C
> - a fraction of those voters will vote for A because they even prefer 
> A to other candidates
> - thus C can get elected because of vote-splitting between A and B
>
> Even if more voters prefer B to C, the result is that C wins over B. 
> This is clearly non-monotonic.
> This is a typical vote-splitting case using FPTP.




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