<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Kathy Dopp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kathy.dopp@gmail.com" target="_blank">kathy.dopp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> From: "rob brown" <<a href="mailto:rob@karmatics.com" target="_blank">rob@karmatics.com</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [EM] Can someone point me at an example of the<br>
> nonmonotonicity of IRV?<br>
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> Are you aware that in going to a doctor to treat an injury, you can get in a<br>
> car accident and get injured some more? Why would anyone go to a doctor if<br>
> doing so can actually make your health WORSE?<br>
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</div>OK. So you are saying we must use voting methods where voting for our<br>
FIRST-Choice candidate as our LAST Choice helps our first choice<br>
candidate win, and when I go to the polls I have no idea if that is<br>
true or false because "I might get into an accident when I drive to<br>
the doctor when I'm sick?<br>
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I must have fallen down the rabbit hole when I joined this list.<br></blockquote><div><br>What?<br><br>My point, which you have managed to spectacularly mangle, is that you are ranting about something that is possible, but highly unlikey. You seem to be obsessed with the non-zeroness of the possibility, rather than putting it in a reasonable, balanced perspective.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I am *not* paralyzed. I have DECIDED that I IRV voting is an insane<br>
voting method that would cause much more havoc with voting systems.<br>
<div></div></blockquote><div><br>I am not talking about the decision of what voting method you, or any election method advocate, prefer. I am talking about the decision a voter makes when filling out a ballot, given a method.<br>
<br>But I think you knew that.<br></div></div></div>