[EM] A distance based method

[Jameson Quinn]

2011/7/14 Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet at lavabit.com>

> Jameson Quinn wrote:
>
>> I doubt it's monotonic, though it's probably not a practical problem. That
>> is, it would probably be totally impractical to try to use the
>> nonmonotonicity for anything strategic, and it wouldn't even lead to Yee
>> diagram ugliness.
>>
>
> Nonmonotonicity could be considered an error even with honest voters. The
> argument would go something like: "Okay, if we raise X, then X goes from
> winner to loser. That means that the method is either wrong about who should
> have won in the ballot set before we raised X (it shouldn't have been X), or
> after we raised X (it should have been X). We have no way of knowing which
> is the 'right' result, and so other results could also be suspect".
>
> True, but my point was also that the nonmonotonicity of this method would
probably be vanishingly improbable.

JQ
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