At 7:00 PM -0700 3/10/06, Jan Kok wrote: >Holy sacred cow, Batman!! > >According to Brian's analysis, Miller was the Condorcet winner, but >Kiss won the actual IRV election. Miller was preferred over Kiss 3991 >to 3455. > >Brian, the number of first-choice votes according to your histograms >doesn't exactly match the numbers on the Burlington election site, for >the first round summary. For example, you show Kiss got 3808 >first-choice votes, but the election site shows 3809. Do you know >what caused the discrepancies? Did you account for spoiled and >truncated ballots correctly? > >Thanks for doing this analysis! This is BIG news in the small world >of voting methods! :-)
How so? It's well known that IRV/AV/STV doesn't necessarily find the Condorcet winner. It shouldn't be too surprising that there are real-world examples. -- /Jonathan Lundell. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info