[Foundation-l] elections

[Mark Ryan]

On 08/04/07, Christopher Hagar <cmhagar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Instant run-off voting is a bad idea and fails some basic requirements for a
> good voting system. For example, you can have situations where: if you rank
> a candidate _higher_ on your ballot, he will actually do _worse_ in the
> election than if you had ranked him lower.

Could you give an example of a situation where that would occur?