FYI, Defendants in the MN Case (who are promoting IRV and STV methods) have just released new affidavits to the court that discuss Arrow's theorem as supporting the case for IRV/STV and dismissing the importance of IRV's nonmonotonicity.
I posted three of these most recent affidavits of the defendants of Instant Runoff Voting and STV here: http://electionmathematics.org/em-IRV/DefendantsDocs/ The first two docs listed are by Fair Vote's new expert witness. The third doc is by the Minneapolis, MN City attorney. The defendants characterize Arrow's theorem as proving that "there exists no unequivocally satisfactory, or normatively appealing, voting rule." and claim the "possibility of nonmonotonic results plagues ALL potential democratic voting systems with 3 or more candidates unless a dictatorial voting rule is adopted." I would appreciate it if any of you have time to read some of the above three docs, particularly the third document by the attorney, and give me your responses. FYI, the plaintiff's characterizes Arrow's theorem on p. 3 of this doc: http://electionmathematics.org/em-IRV/DefendantsDocs/11SuplementaryReplyMemoinSupportofMotionforSummaryJudgment.pdf Thank you. Kathy -- Kathy Dopp The material expressed herein is the informed product of the author'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 http://kathydopp.com/serendipity/ How to Audit Election Outcome Accuracy http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/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
