[EM] Hare (aka IRV) versus STAR

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

On 2024-04-12 01:10, KenB wrote:
> On 4/11/2024 7:53 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
>> For what it's worth, this paper argues that the Condorcet loser in 
>> 2016 was Trump and, while the error margins are greater, the winner 
>> might have been Gary Johnson.
>>
>> https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/G2XRIJW6VSQA9PHDGSRC/full
> = = = = =
> [KB]  Thank you for the link.
> 
> Early in the article, the authors wrote, "We demonstrate that the 
> current electoral system for American presidents can, and in 2016 
> possibly did, select the least-preferred of a set of four candidates."  
> This suggests to me that the article is in a different universe than we 
> are.  It's interesting but it's irrelevant to election reform.

Mike said that every STAR poll shows Stein as the CW. My point was to 
give a paper whose data suggests that Stein wasn't the CW in that 
particular election.

(In addition, that Johnson seems to have been center squeezed in the 
hypotherical Hare election based on the poll data might also be of 
interest.)

I agree that the conclusion the authors are making, that the Electoral 
College can fail Condorcet loser, isn't relevant in my context.

-km