Howdy all, I'm developing an anti-IRV, pro-Approval presentation for the Travis County Libertarian Party's monthly Distinguished Speaker Series. I'm looking for the best IRV examples that show nonmonotonicity and inconsistency. For example, the one I plan to use for non-reverse-symmetry is
40%:A>C>B 40%:B>A>C 20%:C>B>A A good example will be as simple as possible (few candidates, few voting blocs) without seeming too unrealistic. Any ideas for nonmonotonicity and inconsistency? Also, last night I stumbled across a one-hour educational special on voting methods. It was part of a math series called For All Practical Purposes on the Annenberg/CPB Channel. It used a convention of the imaginary Replacement Party to illustrate the differences among plurality and four ranked-ballot methods: plurality with runoff, sequential runoff (IRV), Borda and Condorcet. The candidates were Mallory, Aberman, Richardson, Raupp and Valdez. The final ballots were 18 12 10 9 4 2 Ma Ab Ri Ra Va Va Ra Va Ab Ri Ab Ri Va Ra Va Va Ra Ra Ri Ri Ra Ab Ri Ab Ab Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma Each candidate won under a different method. It's a shame there was no mention of Approval, but it was a pretty good show. ===== Rob LeGrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.aggies.org/robl/ for Texas State Representative, District 50 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
