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Re:Ranked-choice voting will be used in Maine’s presidential... by nl on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @02:57AM (#24563814)
> Gore to lose to Bush because too many of them entered Gore as their first choice; that can actually happen with RCV

How does this happen?

The only scenario I can see where this happens is if Nader received more votes than Gore, and those Gore voters didn't put Nader second. But then the problem isn't too many voters putting Gore as their first choice, it's too few!

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Re:Ranked-choice voting will be used in Maine’s presidential... by elihu on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @03:18AM (#24563977)
Wikipedia has an example of a non-monotonic result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonicity_criterion#Instant...

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