[EM] Strategy-proof vs Monotone

Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_elmet at t-online.de
Wed Jan 19 10:59:04 PST 2022


On 19.01.2022 19:48, Richard Lung wrote:
> 
> Treating an election as a statistic, binomial stv is monotonic and
> strategy-resistant. I would guess that all run-off methods, which
> actually includes traditional stv, are non-monotonic, in principle.

Unfortunately, without an implementation, I can't verify that claim; and
since no STV method I've seen so far have been proven to be monotone, I
would find it surprising if this were the case.

It would of course be good if it were true! But I have no way of
determining that.

-km


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