[EM] IRV is best method meeting 'later no harm'?

Kristofer Munsterhjelm km-elmet at broadpark.no
Wed Nov 25 11:49:22 PST 2009


Warren Smith wrote:
> Are there any other voting methods besides IRV, meeting the
> 'later no harm' criterion?

Woodall's Descending Solid Coalitions method does. Minmax(pairwise 
opposition) also does, but it has an awful Plurality failure:

1000: A
1:    A=C
1:    B=C
1000: B

and C wins in MMPO.

LNH is also technically met by Plurality and Random Ballot, since they 
don't consider "Later"s at all.



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