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* [[Monotonicity]] - There are many people that obsess about the monotonicity criterion failure that happened in
* [[Condorcet criterion]] - this was the indisputable failure of [[instant-runoff voting]] in that election
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The Condorcet criterion is not ''that'' hard to explain. In short, if a simple majority of voters prefer candidate A over candidate B (and express that preference on their ballots), then candidate B should not be elected.
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== Interview ==
Below is an interview with Robert Bristow-Johnson, conducted via email. Robert has lived in Burlington for a number of years, working in a variety of roles as an audio engineer, having written "[http://shepazu.github.io/Audio-EQ-Cookbook/audio-eq-cookbook.html The Audio-EQ Cookbook]". Back in 2009, [[Wikipedia:
''A quick Google search doesn’t turn up a ton on Robert Bristow-Johnson (or RBJ, as he is often abbreviated). He worked at Eventide, Fostex, Young Chang (Kurzweil), and Wave Mechanics. RBJ has a few AES papers as well, all of which are worth reading, covering topics ranging from PSOLA pitch shifting (made famous by AutoTune) to filter design to interpolation for oversampling.''</blockquote>Robert is a longtime citizen of Burlington, and has long been troubled by the persistent drive toward [[Instant-runoff voting|Instant-Runoff Voting (IRV)]] in Burlington. In 2014, he was invited to write [https://vtdigger.org/2014/11/11/robert-bristow-johnson-ways/ "Having it Both Ways"] for the local [https://vtdigger.org/about-vtdigger-2/ "VTDigger" publication from ''The Vermont Journalism Trust''], where he pointed out a strategic mistake (or two, or maybe more) that the Republicans in Vermont made. I'm grateful for the opportunity to interview Robert via email<ref>I also had the opportunity to have a "30 minute" conversation with Robert that became an enjoyable two hours for both of us, but that part was off-the-record.</ref>:
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