On Oct 7, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Markus Schulze wrote:
I browsed through the links of that site. It is
interesting to see that FairVote Minnesota is
planning to use the claim, that all election
methods violate monotonicity, even at court.
They write: "The non-monotonicity argument is
irrelevant because it applies to all voting
systems." See:
http://www.fairvotemn.org/sites/fairvotemn.org/files/IRV%20lawsuit_FVM%20Reply_0.pdf
Their specific argument, though, is that the existing two-round
plurality system is non-monotonic; they don't actually rely on the
argument that all voting systems are non-monotonic.
And here they argue that IRV's violation of
monotonicity results from Arrow's Theorem:
http://www.fairvotemn.org/sites/fairvotemn.org/files/IRV%20lawsuit_City%20Reply.pdf
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