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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="auto">So if the Condorcet Winner is neither X nor Y, why is the pairwise choice between the IRV and Approval winners a "good thing"?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div dir="auto" font-size:9pt;"=""><i>Powered by Cricket Wireless</i></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">------ Original message------</div><div dir="auto"><b>From: </b>Andy Dienes<andydienes@gmail.com></andydienes@gmail.com></div><div dir="auto"><b>Date: </b>Wed, Jun 15, 2022 10:34 PM</div><div dir="auto"><b>To: </b>Forest Simmons;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Cc: </b>EM;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Subject:</b>Re: [EM] IRV Finisher DSV</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">It is an interesting idea but I think it would be more fair if it were like:<br><br>IRV winner X, approval winner Y where X is (exclusive) cutoff on all ballots, then pairwise of X and Y wins<div><br></div><div>
Otherwise, what if the final round of IRV is X and Z, but my preferences happen to be Z > X > (everything else), seems like my vote would be mostly ignored.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 10:22 PM Forest Simmons <<a href="mailto:forest.simmons21@gmail.com">forest.simmons21@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">One Approval step determines the winner W after the IRV winner X has been found:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The IRV winner X is the approval cutoff on all ballots ... inclusive only on the ballots whose transferred vote went to X on the final IRV round.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>
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