In 1988 the 94th International Olympic Committee (IOC) met in Seoul to select the 1994 Winter Olympics
Question:
In 1988 the 94th International Olympic Committee (IOC) met in Seoul to select the 1994 Winter Olympics site. The cities in the running were Anchorage (A), Lillehammer (L), Ostersund (T), and Sofia (S). Consider the following fictional account of how the voting might have been conducted. The voting takes place over a two-day period using the Hare method. The first day the 93 members of the IOC take a nonbinding vote, and then on the second day they take a binding vote. Use this information for Problems 36 and 37.
On the evening of the first day of voting (see Problem 36), representatives from Ostersund wined, dined, and sweet-talked the 7 members with the bottom votes. They were able to convince those IOC members to move Lillehammer to the top of their list. After all, they argued, Lillehammer won the straw vote anyway - everyone likes to vote for the winner. Also, one of the (TLSA) voters changed to (LTSA). The second day, the rankings of the IOC committee were:
What is the result of the election using the Hare method for the second binding day of voting? Does this vote count violate the monotonicity criterion?
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In the Hare method also known as the instantrunoff voting system the voting proceeds in rounds In each round the candidate in this case the city with ...View the full answer
