[EM] A completely idiotic Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) election

Kristofer Munsterhjelm km-elmet at broadpark.no
Thu Sep 2 13:04:34 PDT 2010


C.Benham wrote:

>> Score voting <http://rangevoting.org/RangeVoting.html> considers this 
>> election an easy call. It would elect B if all voters gave score X to 
>> their first choice, Y to their second,
>> and Z to their third, for /any/ X≥Y≥Z, not all equal.
> 
> Really?
> 
> 18: A9,  B1,  C0
> 24: B9,  C1,  A0
> 15: C9,  A8,  B0
> 
> A wins. Doesn't this example qualify?

I don't think so. For the first two ballot groups, you have X = 9, Y = 
1, Z = 0, but then you change them to X = 9, Y = 8, Z = 0 for the last.



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