Instant runoff voting is the system we need

Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need by admax88q on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:31PM (#18397092)

I guess I can't comprehend how someone doesn't view non-montonicity as a fatalflaw in a voting system.

If I can hurt my preferred candidates chances of winning by ranking them higher on my ballot then the voting system is broken.

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Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need by SilasX on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @01:07AM (#18397399)

Non-monotonicity is a problem.

Non-monotonicity solely on a few pathological edge cases where voter preferences are a nigh-intransitive clusterf—- is not a problem.

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Re:Instant runoff voting is the system we need by admax88q on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @09:20AM (#18399240)

I think that the Burlington example that has been cited a lot in this thread shows that non monotonicity is a problem for IRV in not just pathological edge cases.

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