====================================================================== SOURCE FILE: coombs_ex21_twin_after.yaml TABULATED FILE: coombs_ex21_twin_after_tabulated.txt ====================================================================== election_title: "Coombs Ex.21 — after: two twins join for B, and B's win becomes a coin flip" scenario_description: |- The AFTER half of Felsenthal's Coombs twin example. Source: Dan S. Felsenthal (2010), Appendix A7, Example 21 — see coombs_ex21_twin_before.yaml for the setup. The same 20 voters plus two more casting B>A>D>C, twins of a voter already there: 22 in all. Their arrival adds two first places for B and, critically, two last places for C. C is now deleted first instead of A, the transfers run differently, and the count ends with A and B TIED — no winner without a lot. Before the twins arrived, B won outright with 11 of 20. Two extra ballots ranking B FIRST turned a certain win into a coin flip. That is the weak twin paradox: not that the twins made B lose outright, but that they made B's victory strictly less certain, which is already a violation of what any voter is entitled to assume about casting a ballot for their favorite. Because the post state is a genuine tie, this case has no determinate winner under Coombs and could never be published as a BetterVoting election with a meaningful result — the same limit noted for BV2142. The expected winner recorded below is the RCV-IRV winner, which IS determinate; only the Coombs count ties. Labels are Felsenthal's own A/B/C/D so the case can be read side by side with the paper's table. Tabulated as RCV-IRV, the mirror-image count; IRV elects B before and after, so the failure is Coombs' alone. For the Coombs count, and its tie warning, run tools_adam/pref_voting_tabulation_engine/coombs_report.py. paradoxes: [twin] voting_method: RCV_IRV num_winners: 1 ballots: |- 5:A>B>D>C 5:B>C>D>A 3:B>A>D>C 6:C>A>D>B 1:C>B>A>D 2:C>B>D>A expected_winners: - B # file: coombs_ex21_twin_after.yaml ====================================================================== TABULATION RESULTS ====================================================================== --- RCV / Instant-Runoff Voting (single winner) --- Coombs Ex.21 — after: two twins join for B, and B's win becomes a coin flip Tabulating 22 ballots (ranked ballots). ROUND 1 Candidate Votes Status ----------- ------- -------- C 9 Hopeful B 8 Hopeful A 5 Rejected D 0 Rejected FINAL RESULT Candidate Votes Status ----------- ------- -------- B 13 Elected C 9 Rejected A 0 Rejected D 0 Rejected Winner(s) — RCV / Instant-Runoff Voting (single winner) B --- Smith Set (the generalized Condorcet winner) --- The smallest group whose every member beats every candidate outside it — the honest answer to "who is even in contention?". Smith set (3 of 4): B, C, A Outside (1): D More than one member ⇒ NO Condorcet winner: the top of the tournament is a group held open by draws, so the strongest "candidate" is a set, not a person. Some members DO beat others, but no member beats them all — a draw blocks the sweep. No loop closes either, so there is no cycle for Minimax / Ranked Pairs / Schulze to resolve: which member wins is left to the tiebreak, not to a cycle rule. See 05_Ranked_Robin/01_Learn/rr_tiebreak_lh_vs_bv.md. Note: the Copeland leaders (B) are only part of the set — the win–loss table's top block understates how wide the contention is. RCV-IRV winner B is INSIDE the Smith set. ✓ Not guaranteed — RCV-IRV is not Smith-efficient — but it holds here. Fine print: this set contains a pairwise DRAW, and a draw is enough to keep a candidate in the Smith set but not in the tighter Schwartz set — so Schwartz may be smaller here. More: 07_Concepts/topics/smith_set.md