Someone called me today and pointed out in a way that it finally sunk in how awful it is that voters can actually cause their own first choice candidate to LOSE by casting votes for their first choice candidate in IRV elections.
Could someone please point me to a fairly simple (if possible) example of the nonmonotonicity feature of IRV elections where adding say two more votes for candidate A causes candidate A to lose whereas candidate A would have won the election without the addition of the two more first choice votes? I find it absolutely astounding now that I think about it, that anyone could support a method where the voters going to the polls cannot know if their first choice votes for a candidate would hurt or help their candidate! Thanks. Pretty soon, if I find one more flaw of IRV, I'm going to have to revise the title of the paper to "20 flaws & 3 benefits of IRV..." -- Kathy Dopp The material expressed herein is the informed product of the author Kathy Dopp's fact-finding and investigative efforts. Dopp is a Mathematician, Expert in election audit mathematics and procedures; in exit poll discrepancy analysis; and can be reached at P.O. Box 680192 Park City, UT 84068 phone 435-658-4657 http://utahcountvotes.org http://electionmathematics.org http://electionarchive.org How to Audit Election Outcome Accuracy http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/legislative/VoteCountAuditBillRequest.pdf History of Confidence Election Auditing Development & Overview of Election Auditing Fundamentals http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/History-of-Election-Auditing-Development.pdf Voters Have Reason to Worry http://utahcountvotes.org/UT/UtahCountVotes-ThadHall-Response.pdf ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
