[EM] Instant Runoff Voting 3-candidate elections - pathologies considerably more common than you may have thought

Warren Smith warren.wds at gmail.com
Sun Aug 29 08:32:44 PDT 2010


> When you consider the failure of relative criteria (like Monotonicity),
> how do you count the occurrence?

--If an election A is a member of a non-monotone election-pair (A,B) then
A "exhibits nonmonotonicity."   There are actually 2 kinds of nonmonotonicity
("less is more" and "more is less") in IRV3 elections and they are counted
both separately and in union, whichever you want the tables have...
  http://rangevoting.org/IrvParadoxProbabilities.html

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