Warren Smith wrote:
On 11/5/09, Warren Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
--Olson's method fails.
Suppose voter #1 votes (1,0,0,0,...0) "plurality style".
If canddt#1 is eliminated, the ballot then becomes unnormalizable.
I assume Olson deals with that by throwing it in the garbage.
More seriously:
If canddt#1 instead is declared a winner with over-quota, then Olson
reweights canddt#1
and renormalizes ballot #1 so its sum-of=squares is still 1.
However, it is impossible to do both if ALL ballots happen to be
plurality-style,
the reweighting and renormalization conflict and the conflict is
irreconciliable.
How does IRV work in this situation? I'd guess that IRNR would work the
same way. Unless I'm mistaken, the ballots would be considered exhausted
and thus "removed from play", as it were.
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