User:RobLa/Burlington2009

Why do electoral reform advocates obsess about the 2009 mayoral race in Burlington, Vermont. This page discusses the reasons.

• 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 majority of voters prefer candidate A over candidate B (and express that preference on their ballots), then candidate A should beat candidate B.

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