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Is it good that sometimes voting A > B > C would cause A to lose, while voting C > B > A would cause A to win?
by anonymoushn 10y ago
Is it good that sometimes voting A > B > C would cause A to lose, while voting C > B > A would cause A to win?
- im3w1l 10y agoDoes this actually happen in practice? What would it take to trigger this behavior?
- anonymoushn 10y agoYes, here's an account of a real election http://www.rangevoting.org/Burlington.html http://www.rangevoting.org/Burlington.html. The relevant bit: > If 753 of the W-voters (specifically, all 495 of the W>K>M voters plus 258 of the 1289 W-only voters) had instead decided to vote for K, then W would have been eliminated (not M) and then M would have beaten K in the final IRV round by 4067 to 3755. In other words, Kiss won, but if 753 Wright-voters had switched their vote to Kiss, that would have made Kiss lose!