[EM] Burlington VT reconsidering IRV 10 years after IRV failed to elect the Condorcet Winner

Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_elmet at t-online.de
Sun Dec 8 01:30:06 PST 2019


On 08/12/2019 03.27, C.Benham wrote:
>> Warren has written a bit about it here: https://rangevoting.org/BtrIrv.html
>>
>> (He states that every Condorcet method fails mono-add-top, which I don't
>> think is true, but his example does show that BTR-IRV fails mono-add-top.)
> 
> All Smith methods fail mono-add-top, but  MinMax Margins meets both
> Condorcet and mono-add-top.

IIRC, it's an open question whether Smith is compatible with
mono-add-top. Smith plus Plurality is incompatible with mono-add-top,
though. (https://electowiki.org/wiki/Mono-add-top_criterion)


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