Warren said: Subjectively speaking, I do not see why the advantages that we can gain from going to this sort of method, are worth the cost of losing monotonicity (because such a loss seems based on the historical evidence to make a method politically unacceptable).
I reply: I don't know whether or not AR is in the class of methods that B & Y proved nonmonotonic. But, for example, nonmonotonicity was never what bothered me about IRV. It doesn't bother the IRVists, or the Australians or Irish. Yes, it resulted in Hamilton's rejection. But Hamilton didn't have the unconditional unbias advantage that AR has. AR's simplicity, and its unconditional unbias, outweigh nonmonotonicity (if it has nonmonotonicity), for me, and quite possibly for others. Mike Ossipoff ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
