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Subject: Re: [EM] smith/schwartz/landau<br />
From: "Curt" <accounts@museworld.com><br />
Date: Sat, March 24, 2018 11:30 pm<br />
To: "election-methods@lists.electorama.com" <election-methods@lists.electorama.com><br />
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> (In your final paragraphs, I am not sure if you are talking about a candidate other than the Condorcet Winner, or, a candidate from a multi-candidate Smith Set that would (in the case of a cycle) by definition have another candidate that is preferred over it.)<br />
></p><p>i was referring to the 2009 mayoral race in Burlington Vermont. IRV was used, but the ballot data was publically available and we could re-tabulate the ballots according to other rules and we discovered that a CW existed and was not the IRV winner (which meant that the CW came in
"third" by IRV reckoning).<br /><br />
there was no cycle. the Smith set was of size 1.<br />
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the CW was the more centrist Democrat<br />
the IRV winner (and election winner) was Prog<br />
the plurality winner (counting first-choice votes) was GOP<br />
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so three different candidates all having some claim of legitimacy for office. but the law was IRV and the Prog won even though the CW beat him by about 5% in a head-to-head.</p><p>the next year, the city voters voted to repeal IRV and we have reverted back to Plurality with a runoff if 40%
cannot be obtained.</p><p><br />--<br />
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r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com<br />
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