[EM] A completely idiotic Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) election
Kristofer Munsterhjelm
km-elmet at broadpark.no
Thu Sep 2 14:01:03 PDT 2010
C.Benham wrote:
> Kristofer M. wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> So what does the phrase "not all equal" refer to then?
It means that you can't assign the same value to all the variables -- if
you were to do so, the result would always be a tie.
In other words, it is the constraint that at least one of the following
must be true:
X != Y
X != Z
Y != Z
where != is the not-equals operator.
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