Re: [EM] Consensus?: IRV vs. Primary w/Runoff

[Forest Simmons]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Markus Schulze wrote:

> 
> Of course, then you have to explain why it is bad for an election method
> to be "erratic".
> 

Adam gave the explanation in his example. My only contribution was to
describe the behavior of IRV as "erratic" in that context, and give a
homely analogy in the form of shower valve performance :-)

It certainly wasn't meant to be a formal criterion, although sometimes
formal criteria do grow out of efforts to crystallize the essence of
examples like that.

Forest