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As readers of Electowiki know, I'm Rob Lanphier, aka [[User:RobLa]]. This page is ''my'' point of view about what happened in Burlington in 2009. Why do electoral reform advocates obsess about the [[Burlington 2009|2009 mayoral race in Burlington, Vermont]]
== Burlington2009 ==
:''hashtag Burlington2009''
This page discusses the reason why I think that Burlington eletion was a mess in 2009. First, I'll bring up a couple of electoral criteria:
* [[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
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.▼
Then, there's my diagram, which I'm still pretty happy with:
As readers of Electowiki know, I'm Rob Lanphier, aka [[User:RobLa]]. I'm planning to iteratively publish an email interview with Robert Bristow-Johnson on this page. Robert is an electoral reform activist, and has been a longtime member of the [[Election-methods mailing list]] ("[[EM list]]"). Robert's first message in October 2009 ([http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com//2009-October/122858.html a response to Michael Rouse's "new method/request for voting paradoxes" thread]), and he's been continuously active since then. In fact, recently, he engaged in a conversation with [http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2020-April/thread.html#2523 a conversation with Kristofer Munsterhjelm about "Linear summability"] , which is what inspired me to start this interview.▼
* [[#Diagram]] - my diagram that I made shortly after the election
Then finally there's the interview:
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== Monotonicity ==
:''main article: [[Monotonicity]]''
There are many people that obsess about the monotonicity criterion failure that happened in Burlington. It's a red herring, though. The real problem was with the failure of the [[#Condorcet criterion]]
== Condorcet criterion ==
:''main article: [[Condorcet criterion]]''
▲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
== Diagram ==
:''<span id="SVGbyRobLaOfBurlington2009">hashtag SVGbyRobLaOfBurlington2009</span>''
<div id="Interview"><span id="RBJ">The following section is an interview about the Burlington election in 2009</span></div>
== Interview with RBJ in 2020 ==▼
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▲== Interview ==
▲:''<span id="RBJ">email interview with Robert Bristow-Johnson ("RBJ"), started in May 2020 and still happening...</span>''
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:ValhallaDSP|ValhallaDSP]] had this to say about him''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://valhalladsp.com/2009/11/05/dsp-hero-robert-bristow-johnson/|title=DSP Hero: Robert Bristow-Johnson|last=Costello|first=Sean|date=2009|website=[[wikipedia:ValhallaDSP|ValhallaDSP]]|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>'':<blockquote>''If you program audio DSP effects, you have undoubtedly heard of Robert Bristow-Johnson. If you haven’t heard of him, get yourself a copy of his Audio-EQ Cookbook. This is a succinct little document, that provides coefficient generation formulas for pretty much any second order filter building block you would ever need: lowpass, highpass, allpass, peak EQ, notch, shelving filters, etc. Today, I am implementing these formulas for my own code, but I know I’ve implemented them in at least 3 prior DSP environments. Really good stuff.''
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